Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long had a history of such "benign tolerance." Administrators, many of whom have close ties to the airline industry, have taken great pleasure in touting the billions of dollars consumers save by flying upstart airlines like ValuJet. At the same time, the agency has been reluctant to force companies to use new technology, insisting on proof that the benefits outweigh the costs to the airlines. In the late '80s, for instance, the agency dragged its feet on requiring the installation of the ground-proximity warning system in commuter airlines, even though this simple device could have prevented a number...
...thing. Felony possession of four controlled substances with intent to distribute, within a drug-free zone, is another matter entirely. While HUPD is there to help Harvard students, it is also obliged to enforce the law, and ignoring a felony drug operation would go far beyond the "benign neglect" referred to by Mr. Aibel. There is a point at which the actions of individual students may threaten the security of the community, and at that point it is the responsibility of the police to act. The police have encountered safety problems with students under the unlawful influence of alcohol...
Kienholz wasn't a Pop artist; there was nothing benign or accommodating in his view of mass culture. To him the TV set was both America's anus and its oracle. He was a history artist, working in a real-things-in-the-real-world vernacular that was, by turns, scabrous, brazenly rhetorical and morally obsessed. Compared with the thin, overconceptualized gruel that most political art in postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade...
...riff on This Island Earth--the whole thing, ruthlessly pared down, lasts only 73 minutes--but watching it in a crowd offers a different high. As the gags pile up remorselessly, and the viewer strains to keep up with the story line and the cutting subtext, a furious but benign apnea takes hold. You can't enjoy a good long laugh because you'll miss too much; you must let it explode in short blasts. It's the happiest form of internal injury...
Recent commercials for Advil and Tylenol, each "campaigning" against the other for a larger share of the billion-dollar painkiller market, have made political commercials seem relatively benign. A few weeks ago, Johnson and Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, and the American Home Products Company, the maker of Advil, started their own battle in the painkiller scene. Both companies made numerous television commercials decrying the side effects of the other brand...