Word: milde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have six days to shoot 50 pages of script. TV is a well-oiled machine. Either you roll with it or it rolls over you." He rolled, all right: within three years he had directed his first TV movie, Duel, about an evil driverless truck bent on crushing a mild motorist on the endless blacktop of the Southwest. Shot in twelve days for $300,000, Duel went on to earn Universal $9 million when it was released to theaters in Europe...
...protest is mild, but Solidarity has surely survived the winter
...mild ex-Unitarian clairvoyant dead 100 years, Emerson is still capable of stirring surprising hostility. In a baccalaureate address to his senior class last year, Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti blamed Emerson for the ugliest tendency of the American character - "a worship of power." Emerson, he said, "freed our politics and our politicians from any sense of restraint by extolling self-generated, unaffiliated power as the best foot to place in the small of the back of the man in front of you." This is Emerson as the imperialist Rotarian. It is Emerson as Uncle Sam in a Nietzsche...
...started his Falklands shuttle, Haig dispatched his No. 2 man, Deputy Secretary of State Walter Stoessel, in the hope that his mere presence would have a calming effect. The Israeli bombing of Lebanon at midweek stirred U.S. officials to private fury, but the State Department contented itself with a mild public statement while getting messages to the P.L.O. urging that nothing be done to give Israel an excuse for a wider attack...
...strategic consensus" against Soviet penetration of the area died long ago. Since then, says one disgruntled U.S. policymaker, the American attitude has been "Don't face anything until someone rubs our nose in it." It is a posture that has won no friends. A long series of mild and ineffectual rebukes to Israel-about the bombing of both the Iraqi nuclear reactor and Beirut last summer and the de facto annexation of the Golan Heights-has angered moderate Arabs far more than U.S. arms sales have soothed them. Even some American officials fear that Prime Minister Menachem Begin...