Word: merely
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When he succeeded Mao Tse-tung as Party Chairman in 1976, after all, he was a mere Minister of Public Security...
...years will come geriatric chic, revolution in the nursing homes. But just now, the baby boomers, in their early-to mid-30s, are grappling for the first time with life's serious, mundane and (in many cases) long postponed business: trying to discover living arrangements more permanent than mere roommating, finding ways to raise children, shelter them, nourish them, educate them, serve as models for them and otherwise turn them into the next generation - a hopeful and sometimes painful drudgery that is invariably hard on narcissists. The aging baby boomers are now daddies and mommies with careers to build...
...Paso, Texas: Ole Miss, which finished the regular season at 9-2, meets Big Eight runnerup Nebraska. Whatever happened to Cornhusker running back I. M. Hipp, the rusher with the self-sobriquet? He was replaced by Jarvis Redwine, who churned up 1119 yds. on the ground on a mere 156 attempts. The Husker defense is also tenacious, second in fewest points permitted (8.5 per game). Nebraska in a waltz...
...ROMANTIC LEADS, usually serve as mere straight-men for the comic characters. But in Yeomen Phoebe, Fairfax, and Elsie all play three-dimensional, pivotal roles, especially in this production, because both comic principals are weak. Willis Emmons turns the razor-sharp, dominating role of Jack Point into a confusingly puckish, giggly supporting player. Some of the blame falls to director Paul R. O'Neill, who evidently has encouraged Emmons to read much of his dialogue in a jarring falsetto. In addition, Martha Weiner's Act One costume for Point bares too much resemblance to the costumes for the chorus...
...admirable theory, but the whole tradition of the demonic robot assumes that when a metal creature feels immortal longings, no mere law can rein him in. Arthur C. Clarke demonstrated that in 2001. The computer HAL not only operates the space ship and talks in a supercilious tenor but is so exalted by its own superiority ("I am incapable of making an error") that it starts killing the astronauts who interfere with its plans. In a 1976 MGM effort titled Demon Seed, a presumptuous robot goes even further and fulfills the sinful ambition of making Julie Christie pregnant. But then...