Word: lukewarmness
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...Rubies,” Bejar reunites the principal members of the band with whom he recorded 2002’s “This Night.” The reunion seems like a calculated response to the lukewarm reception fans gave to the stripped-down, piano-driven production on Destroyer’s most recent album, 2004’s “Your Blues...
...Kirby, who has received lukewarm reviews from some professors in the past, was greeted by a standing ovation from the approximately 200 Faculty members who packed the University Hall meeting room...
...certain sport played on flat fields. "In Italy, if it isn't called soccer, it's hard to get a lot of people interested," says Roberto Grissiotto, a Torino sales manager for an auto-safety manufacturer. This, added to a general Italian nonchalance, may help explain the lukewarm start to ticket sales: some 30% of the 1 million tickets were still available a week before the torch was to be lit. The city has had to tap public utility sponsors and hold a special national lottery to make up a $77 million shortfall resulting from cost overruns and lower-than...
...lines on The Simple Life). But Jeff Bartsch, a freelance reality-show editor, says there are many ways of using footage to shape a story. Bartsch worked on Blind Date, a syndicated dating show that features hookups gone right--and comically wrong. If a date was dull or lukewarm, the editors would juice the footage by running scenes out of order or out of context. To make it seem like a man was bored, they would cut from his date talking to a shot of him looking around and unresponsive--even though it was taken while...
...lieutenant governor will remind us when she declares her candidacy for the job. I wonder if the motive underlying Gov. Romney’s choice to quit has more to do with the reluctance to sacrifice his presidential ambitions upon the altar of a lukewarm record? It says something about the character of the man, and the efficacy of his tenure in office, who fears to run on the remarkable progress he claims his administration has made. JEFFREY W. WHITE Belmont, Mass. January 8, 2005 The writer is a senior at Harvard Extension School