Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Club members maintained a large supply of soda to give to party members after they sampled the spicy chicken and beef dishes. A native Caribbean, however, said that the food was mild by native standards. "American food is so incredibly bland," said Richard H. Drayton '86, an Adams House resident who lives in Barbados...
...Last week Hugh Hefner celebrated his birthday at his $20 million Los Angeles mansion with 250 well-wishers, including his girlfriend of three years, Playboy Model Carrie Leigh, 22. Hefner, who spends his days working on an autobiography (with Yeager Co-Author Leo Janos), suffered a mild stroke 13 months ago, and he is taking care of himself a little more now. He has switched from Pepsi to Diet Pepsi, stashed away his once omnipresent pipes and uses an exercycle. "Not my style in the old days," Hef admits. But the fledgling senior citizen can tell the difference: "I feel...
...fact, steps suggested by Tokyo's ponderously named Ministerial Conference for Economic Measures amounted to little more than some mild domestic pump priming. Nakasone's government was advised, for example, to speed up public spending on construction projects that are already planned. An official of Japan's economic-planning agency estimates that 78% of those projects scheduled for the second half of fiscal 1986 could begin six months earlier. That action would spur construction firms to order materials and hire workers sooner than they had planned. Utility companies were urged to lower their rates. Banks were encouraged to lower interest...
...temblor, the quake for four seconds shook shelves and nerves from Santa Rosa to San Luis Obispo. Damage was minimal: some 21,000 people lost power briefly, but the San Francisco skyscrapers merely swayed, as they are designed to do. The tremor, along with another mild one the previous Saturday, was the latest in a series that has shaken the area in the past decade...
Outwardly, the show, which opened off Broadway last week, is a farce. In pursuit of his ambition, the mild-mannered host (John Cunningham) squabbles with his wife (Debra Mooney), snubs friends, forces drinks on the unwilling, tries to orchestrate the tempo of encounters, wages war against spontaneity. His every move is being judged by a remorselessly bitchy critic (Charlotte Moore) from a newspaper resembling the New York Times. Her very presence indicates that Gurney has metaphors in mind. Other hints include references to Oscar Wilde, whose epigrams the characters mimic, and a mounted portrait of Hawthorne, master of allegory...