Word: benignity
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...there's the defiant silence of the victims, caretakers of a musty but prestigious museum, who fear that any utterance, no matter how benign, might sabotage their highest hopes in years...
Connor, who can seem utterly benign as he weaves one story onto the tail of another, and another, and another, changes instantly when the names of certain cops, or that judge, are uttered. His eyes bug out, his neck tenses, and another Myles, a chilling character, crawls out of his skin. He breathes fire when he calls the judge "a vapid windbag and a pathetic martinet...
...dose of fear that would have chilled Roosevelt in '32. Biggs, it seems, had just come back from the Far East, and he was terrified by what he saw. He invoked all the bearish icons: the Great Depression, the Crash of '29 (I guess '87 seemed too benign), 40%-to-50% declines ahead in emerging markets, and, of course, the long-awaited great bear market in the U.S. Sure, he threw in a couple of caveats, but the tone was all scare. You could see the market aflame even before Biggs had finished spraying lighter fluid. Within minutes I heard...
...family story is one of distinction and poignant drama. Her great-grandfather H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister in the very years (1908-16) when so many of her films are set. Her father, a Harvard business school graduate, was a successful banker until, after an operation for a benign brain tumor, he suffered a paralyzing stroke. Helena has her looks from her mother, a psychotherapist of Franco-Spanish-Austro-Russian-Jewish ancestry. She lived with her parents until she was 30, when she bought an apartment a few minutes from their London home. "I'm not stretching the umbilical cord...
...Getty is a clear, benign and somewhat remote presence in coastal Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum has hit Bilbao with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it's there. You are walking through the pleasantly undistinguished, mainly 19th century streets of its quarter; you turn a corner, and--pow!--an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver (titanium, actually), massively undulating, something that seems at first glance to have been dropped from another cultural world between the gray townscape and the green hills that rise behind it. Not since Joern Utzon's 1973 design...