Word: benignity
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...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...
Much of the uncertainty could be eliminated, of course, if doctors could tell, while a prostate cancer is still small, if it is the lethally aggressive or relatively benign type. In other words, whether a man will die of it or merely with it. "The challenge," as the British Medical Journal editorializes, "is to separate the pussycats from the tigers and identify aggressive tumors...
...right cream rinse will make you happier, or there are no problems that can't be solved in half an hour. You know, the kind of quick-fix thinking that might lead someone--a politician, say--to believe that the V chip will be more than just a benign distraction from the genuinely thorny problems--actual violence, say--facing American kids...
...Further-more, the Confederate flag was incorporated into the Georgia state flag in 1956 as a symbolic challenge to the desegragationist agendas of the civil rights movement and the federal government. It was a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights, not a benign declaration of Southern pride...