Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment that seemed to last forever. "It's wonderful that such an investment has a return all in one day," said Georg Hackl, a silver medalist in 1988 claiming his gold in the luge. But even for champions, there are a hundred clocks working simultaneously, not all of them benign. Bonnie Blair, after winning a gold, coolly outlined the four-year plan that took her from the Calgary Games to Albertville and how "I took each year a little differently." Not in the plan, however, was the death of her father two years ago, and when his name came...
Despite these remarks, the lecture was more benign in content than most critics expected, although it was enough to arouse Jeffries' critics and supporters to occasional shouting matches during the question and answer period...
...just houses; they are also being given the chance to become the carpenters of their own futures. But the children of Camden, like all poor children in all dying cities, need more than pilot projects and symbolic gestures. "Camden is the purest distillation of our policy of not-so-benign urban neglect," says Congressman Rob Andrews. "We cannot afford to just write off 10% to 15% of the American public as irredeemable. Anyone who has any compassion must feel this...
Against which everyone bravely, touchingly, builds his or her none-too- sturdy defenses. Mack, in fact, turns into a benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is engagingly soft- spoken. And well spoken. The screenplay -- by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best...
...correlated precisely with Kinsey's, we wonder whether the "tireless" writer of this article was not a little eager in dismissing the 10 percent statistic. And given that, according to this statistic, 90 percent of the nation is straight (225 million people), we wonder whether, despite their protestations of benign tolerance, Peninsula writers do not intend any harm when they spuriously discredit Kinsey's finding...