Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nightly news ratings dropped from second place to third, but the advantage went mostly to CBS. Those results convinced top officials at NBC that the pairing of the puckish Brokaw and dour Roger Mudd, 55, had little chance of catching on. A peripatetic workaholic, Brokaw has made mild fun of Mudd's reluctance to leave Washington in pursuit of story or spectacle. Though Brokaw continues to regard Mudd as a friend, he was described by NBC sources as having lobbied for the change. Says Brokaw: "Both of us felt that at times the two-anchor format was an unnatural...
...permits all these disjointed adventures to fit together. Not only does he weave melodies together by continuously introducing new themes and variations and literally orchestrating an amazing crescendo for the book's finale, but he also fashions the words like musical phrases which makes them easier to understand. A mild example might be the exchange between Blue and congressman Hal Gulbit, recently accused of sexual impropriety with sheep...
Dealers from Alabama, Florida, Texas and other parts of Georgia are marketing their onions as Vidalia onions. The reason is simple: the Vidalia, because it is mild and because it has become enormously popular, fetches as much as three times the price of ordinary onions. The Vidalia is a yellow Granex type F-1 hybrid, a variety grown throughout the country. Grown elsewhere, however, the same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart...
Occasionally the implied reaction to the intrusion proves less mild, less forgiving, in light of the events which unfold. "Monster Deal" ends in bitterness and anger when the female intruder all but kidnaps Karen, the teenage paper-delivery girl the narrator is attracted to; the two women go off laughingly together on Karen's Friday afternoon paper route and return dead drunk on Saturday morning, having obviated Karen's Friday night dinner date--the first--with the narrator. This story, too, begins familiarly...
...gain admission to the gang, win acceptance and then at last outgrow the group. The tale is not told with great dramatic intensity. Nor is it really as strange and shocking as Beresford seems to think it is. Indeed, to jaded American eyes these teen-agers are rather mild, old-fashioned and languid in manner. As a result, the film is something of a throwback, as if it might have been called Gidget Meets the Heck's Angels...