Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some colleagues have asked me, "Do we really need to do all that?" Maybe not--if the economy and the stock market continue to boom and inflation stays tame for years to come. But we shouldn't take chances. The system needs to be shored up so it can continue to keep the elderly out of poverty, come what may: recession, a stock-market crash, a flare-up of inflation or even all these things together. In the unlikely event that the economy continues to show its remarkable combination of superfast growth, superlow unemployment and superlow inflation for another decade...
...while this may seem risqué to all of us who are used to the more sedate postures of our favorite professors, this use of space was indeed tame for Monk. At an outdoor performance at Connecticut College in the late 1960s, Monk used six horses, 25 motorcycles, multiple tents, a boat and a VW van during a performance that lasted from 4pm to 10pm, with dinner served in the middle. For another performance, Monk used a goat, which she later deemed "highly unsuccessful," as the hungry goat ate the set, which had been composed entirely of straw...
...biting satire and political commentary of Wag The Dog seems tame next to Kubricks apocalyptic fairy tale, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Even the most sexually-driven movies today, from Basic Instinct to Dangerous Creatures, look childish next to the sophisticated eroticism of Kubrick's Lolita--an eroticism created through words and glances and not a single scene of naked flesh. As for violence, a director like Quentin Tarantino is put to shame when one looks at the cold but gleeful presentation of crime and pain in A Clockwork Orange, which...
...Animal House, the frat boys take revenge on a dean by ramming him with their "Deathmobile." A suspiciously similar jalopy turned up on campus last week after DARTMOUTH COLLEGE president James Wright announced his intention to tame the fraternities that inspired the film...
...year student called Keefer. Keefer is "bony as a bird," a gaunt, nervous man with an uncontrollable stutter. Having flunked one of his first-year classes, Keefer is marked out by the teachers as a failure and tortured more than anyone else. His only solace is Johan, a partially tame shark he keeps in a sea-pen not far from his cabin. Schulman attempts to use Jonah as a sort a of underpinning for this section of the novel, bringing Jane, Keefer and Jonah together again and again as a sort of touchpoint by which we can measure Jane...