Word: milder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave way to the milder notion, favored by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, to have a less formal group look at whatever Starr eventually sends...
Despite its promise, experts agree that hypericum should not be viewed as an off-the-shelf solution for depression, especially severe depression that prompts suicidal thoughts. Nor should it be casually ingested in hopes of relieving a milder state of the blues. As Dr. Stephen Barrett, a co-author of the American Medical Association's Reader's Guide to Alternative Health Methods, observes, "Most people with mild depression will do better with psychotherapy than with drugs. Therapy is generally more effective for these people in the long run than taking a pill--even if the pill works...
...mental or muscular--and our capacity for moral reflection. But in the movie the tormented demigod becomes "Herc," an ultra-buff teenage superstar who adores "Meg" and addresses the Great Goddess Hera as "Mom." Maybe Disney didn't realize that Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for impieties far milder than that. What next? Medea, who kills her own sons after Jason jilts her, as a perky homecoming queen who struggles with low self-esteem...
...victory . . . I'm satisfied that the resolution we reached in this case is fair," said Widnall. At a subsequent press conference, Flinn's mother said that the family was afraid the Air Force was trying to make an example of the pilot. While a general discharge is a much milder outcome than a dishonorable one, Flinn may never be allowed to fly for the Air Force again, including in the National Guard or military reserves, which Flinn had hoped to do. Still, Flinn seemed pleased with the decision; she left the courtroom afterward with a triumphant smile on her face...
Several motels and murders later, and in between cameos by such veteran outragers as Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins and Mink Stole, we notice the signposts. This is a milder Wild at Heart, the 1990 road movie that, like this one, Lynch wrote with novelist Barry Gifford...