Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...operetta's heroine is Patience a lovely mild maid who is taught that love and marriage are not the same. Her companions seven maid led by a betty Jane (Robert Ann Gilbert) have fallen madly in love with a conceited poet, Reginald Bunthorne (William Thorpe) who hypnotizes them with his pretentious over dramatic stanzas. Enter seven dragoons who are engaged to the maidens and can't understand Bunthorne's power over the women. Then comes another handsome poet dressed in white, from his white buck shoes to his white top hat Archibald Grosvenor (John Dennis Sullivan), who is disgusted...
...championship. Today the shoes would set you back $40 plus, and college basketball stars look more like Georgetown University's 7-ft. center Pat Ewing, 20. For the past two summers, Ewing has been playing down his awesome height in an attempt to assume the disguise of a mild-mannered intern with Dole's Senate Finance Committee. Like other interns, the sophomore runs errands, helps out at committee hearings, does research and fits right in. Says the 6-ft. 2-in. Dole: "In Washington it's good to have friends in high places...
...noticeable rise in mosquito-borne diseases so far, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is worried about the possibility of a rash of encephalitis in the South later this summer. The last major outbreak (2,000 cases) occurred in 1975 when there were similar climatic conditions: a mild winter followed by heavy spring rains...
...Europe in 1928 to study the Northern Renaissance portraits on which American Gothic is based, and to examine the work of Patinir and Bruegel, from which his aerial views of landscape were partly derived. He did not look at modern art when he was there, although there are some mild homages to it in his later work: the purposeful, bland, geometric rotundity of skirts and cows' backsides bears some likeness to the derivations from Léger one sees in the English vorticist William Roberts. His addiction was to the consoling udder, not the maddening verre d'absinthe...
...finally, as if for international symmetry's sake, an Israeli community, 90,000 strong, has sprung up since 1970. The new immigrants tend to be young professionals. Many are discouraged by Israel's erratic economy and mandatory military service, and attracted by L.A.'s mild Mediterranean climate and economic promise...