Word: mild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former President Jimmy Carter said the adoption of his successor's budget would be "one of the worst economic mistakes our country has ever made." Other Democrats sounded comparatively mild. Rumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "I don't believe the President appreciates the depth of what is going on. Generally, I like the fella. He tells a good Irish story. But he has forgotten his roots. He associates with the country club-style of people." To which Reagan retorted: "Well, I have only played golf once since I have been President, and he is an inveterate...
...even the allies' show of harmony at Madrid could hardly disguise the disunity within the Western Alliance. Less than two months after President Reagan's unilateral decision to impose mild economic sanctions on Poland and the Soviet Union, the European allies, except for Great Britain and Portugal, have failed to impose economic sanctions independent of the U.S.'s, despite an agreement to examine possible measures at a special NATO ministers meeting in January...
Concentration on the telling detail is a way good writers have of avoiding both melodrama and sentimentality, which blanched the hard truth of Kramer vs. Kramer. As he proved in Melvin and Howard, Bo Goldman is a very good writer, a man whose world appears to be filled with mild eccentrics and funny overheard remarks that he gets down just right in his mental notebook. His specificity seems to have disciplined Alan Parker, who in the past has liked to stress the ugly metaphorical overtones in his material (in Midnight Express he kept insisting that the whole world...
...Taipei government accepted Reagan's decision as a mild disappointment. It chose to emphasize the continuance of arms sales and hailed Reagan's "reaffirmation of concern for the continued well-being of the people of the Republic of China...
...vestige of a grass strip in its ruled bars of white and green. The same handwriting pervades them, a sunken geometry of lines scumbled over and hazed with paint, as though bathed in light and vapor. There is a kind of light on Diebenkorn's stretch of coastline-mild, high and ineffably clear, descending like a benediction on the tickytack slopes just before the fleeting sunset drops over Malibu-which is all but unique in North America, and Diebenkorn's paintings always appear to be done in terms of it. It is part of their signature, whether they...