Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past. Kohl, whose physical bulk and blunt manner seem to personify the big new Germany, called the Yugoslavia decision "a success for German foreign policy." Genscher flatly said, "We were right!" For their part, Germans feel frustrated when they are criticized for doing things that would seem benign if done by virtually any other country. It is time, say many Germans, to reap the benefits of 45 years of good conduct. What they want is responsibility commensurate with duty. "When it comes to paying, everybody says, 'Germans to the front!' " Kohl complains. "So when it comes to political responsibility...
...supporting roles are less impressive but competent, the positive exception being Justin Levitt, who makes the most of the play's hilarious characterization of Emperor Joseph II as a benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since...
During the republic's campaign for independence, the erstwhile friend of Mikhail Gorbachev was branded a "top Kremlin agent." But in the wake of ousting dissident turned despot Zviad Gamsakhurdia in January, Tbilisi leaders took a more benign view of the onetime Georgian Communist Party boss and last week appointed him to chair the new State Council, effectively giving Shevardnadze stewardship of his mountainous homeland. The veteran diplomat now faces pressing tasks: staving off economic collapse, healing the divisions created by months of civil strife and ending the isolation into which Georgia was pushed during Gamsakhurdia's flirtation with dictatorship...
...nobody could blame the object at the center of the storm -- the tiny computer program called Michelangelo. Like all other computer viruses, it was designed to hide within a computer's instructions and spread to other systems by copying itself over and over. But while most computer viruses do benign things -- such as whistle Yankee Doodle -- Michelangelo is pernicious. It was programmed to wipe out all the data in any infected IBM-compatible personal computer on March 6, Michelangelo's birthday...
Claire is not the only one following Farber. She is joined in her trip around the planet by an intrepid American writer (Sam Neill) who is hopelessly in love with her, a benign, harmonicaplaying bounty hunter from Berlin (Rudiger Volger), a goofy French bank robber...