Word: mildly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ensuring that his hero gets squared off and paired up is not the only thing on Forsyth's mind. He has a genial taste for mild eccentrics and sees to it that plenty of them wander in and out of Gregory's life. There is a friend who is overstuffed with useless facts ("Did you know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because...
There are no big meanings here; no big laughs, for that matter, either. Instead, there is a mild, but admirably stubborn singularity. Gregory's Girl does not offer anything as thick as slice life, just slivers of it, cut thin as smoked Scotch salmon. And tasting just as sweet . - By Richard Schickel
Scotland was the Pope's biggest surprise. Anticipating a mild reception in the motherland of Presbyterianism, he found the people there the warmest of all. At the opening event, a rousing youth rally Monday evening at Murrayfield, some 50,000 young people waited through the afternoon for John Paul to arrive. "John Paul, John Paul, John Paul," they chanted rugby-style as the Pope reached the stage. Then they broke into song with the gospel anthem that accompanied the Pope in so many places: He's Got the Whole World in His Hands...
...Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given to them. But the object of coming to Harvard was suddenly apparent. It was to get into a Club. The Club was as pleasant a place as he would ever know. Companionship was there always and mild ways of wasting a little money and a great deal of time. From the Club, gentlemen went to classes, always wearing coat, tie, and hat. "Other types did come here, even then, President Conant created Dudley House for what Theodore H. white '38 called "menthalls"; scholarship and day students, many...
...police are after him, suspecting him of murder. Some renegade CIA agents are also in nasty pursuit, convinced he helped repossess some missile plans that they went to a lot of trouble to steal from the Government. No question about it, mild-mannered Architect Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) has to run for cover. But when he packs his bag, he pauses to match up his socks and then roll them up into prim little balls, just the way his mother taught...