Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he was a fullback at Harvard. Now, after ten years as a Congressman and six as a Senator from Iowa, the beefy Culver, 48, is running for re-election with all of the ferocity that he once showed on the gridiron. His opponent this time is not simply mild-mannered Republican Charles Grassley, 47, a conservative Congressman and corn farmer, but the entire New Right-the antiabortion, anti-liberal and conservative-evangelical Christian groups that have put Culver on their nationwide hit list...
Director Lynch--whose only previous film is the weird and silly Eraserhead--handles Elephant Man with rare tact and delicacy. He paces his film deliberately, creating a cautious, mild-mannered atmosphere that keeps it from becoming a ridiculous creature feature or a two-hour sermon on life's injustice. He subtly presents a London caught in the grasp of the Industrial Revolution. Lynch's camera tracks through crowded and filthy streets and alleys, where the loud chugging and whooshing of factory machines creates an incessant, maddening clamor. In one night-marishsequence dozens of dirty, sweating, barechested laborers slave over...
Bennett, the editor of the Harvard Medical School health newsletter, said the relative hazards of the extra-mild cigarettes still are unclear, but added that there has been an alarming increase in the past 15 years in the number of young women of child--bearing age who are smoking...
...first speech to the nation, the mild-mannered Ulusu emphasized that his government's first order of business will be a drive against political terrorism. A new martial law decree issued last week left no doubt about that goal. It bans all strikes, demonstrations and political meetings and empowers the military authorities to shoot to kill in the pursuit of suspected terrorists. To the shock of Turkey's traditionally free press, the new government imposed strict censorship...
...discreet eye for the truth of a scene. Anyone who has spent time on the sea knows that nothing, in terms of observation, is missing from his images of Truro on Cape Cod, like The Martha McKean of Wellfleet, 1944. From the humping blue of the water to the mild sun on the belly of the gaff-rigged sail, it is all there, immemorial, as permanent as the way the gulls face into the light...