Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mild winter, and lately the rain has been steady in key western areas. In addition, more higher-yielding winter wheat was planted than in previous years, and as an incentive for farmers to raise production, the government increased the prices it pays for their grain. Nonetheless, Soviet authorities say they are preparing for another disappointing grain harvest. Trade officials in Moscow told a delegation from Western Europe earlier this summer that this year's estimated yield could fall roughly 10 million metric tons below last year's total of 190 million...
...Miles' computer, Edgar, hears Madeline playing. It is love at first byte. The machine composes a romantic duet, the two "neighbors" make beautiful music together, and Madeline assumes Miles is the tune's author. This is a gently schizophrenic movie: Rusty Lemorande's script is as mild as Miles; the direction, by MTV Whiz Steve Barren (Billie Jean), often percolates as busily as Edgar in high dudgeon. Still, Von Dohlen is a find, with easy, exquisite comic timing; and Edgar, the cybernetic Cyrano, is the most endearingly neurotic bundle of software since...
...fluent in English and French. Mulroney has never held public office, and Turner has not held elective office since resigning as Finance Minister eight years ago. (Mulroney, who took over the Conservatives in June 1983, won his parliamentary seat two months later). Both are corporate lawyers who favor a mild rightward shift in government. Neither advocates a major assault on Canada's extensive social-welfare system, although both favor long-term reductions in the country's U.S. $22.5 billion federal deficit (7.7% of last year's G.N.P.) and a more receptive climate for foreign, particularly U.S., investment...
Like America itself, in other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people...
...last hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...