Word: meagerness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloody Mary straight-up in the bar, and you will get a weak one in a stem glass; ask for it in the lounge, and you draw a powerful potion in a highball glass. A gimlet in the bar at lunch had a barely perceptible level ofalcohol, and a meager pouring of premium Scotch was overpowered by ice. In a restaurant that began as a speakeasy and is proud of it, such vagaries are disquieting...
Like an avalanche of Styrofoam and saccharin, the Great Human Interest Saga of Andrew Wyeth and Helga Testorf, the German nymph of Chadds Ford, Pa., came roaring down the narrow defiles of silly-season journalism and obliterated the meager factual content of the story. Here, one learned, was a treasure, a secret cache of hundreds of paintings and drawings of a mystery blond done between 1971 and 1985 by America's dynastic culture hero, unbeknown to his wife, never exhibited, possibly the record of a love affair, bought en bloc for millions by a neophyte collector...
...cold, gray autumn weekend to protest U.S. intervention in Central America. There were about 30,000 of us at the demonstration, which to my inexperienced eyes seemed to be an endless crowd. But when we reached the Ellipse, the vast open spaces of the Mall made our numbers seem meager...
...success. An elderly Moscow woman who had a 50-ruble ($75) monthly pension decided to sell hand-embroidered nightgowns, and duly registered with the authorities. But none of her nightgowns sold when she took them to the market, despite days spent standing in the cold. Nevertheless, authorities canceled her meager monthly pension...
...potential only when it breaks away from these tired gags and tries something new. The sequence in which Steel loses Mandel in a shopping mall, for instance, is very funny because of the strangeness of the environment and the newness of the situation. Otherwise, the movie hounds the same meager jokes to death. As a result, Walk Like a Man gradually loses its bite...