Word: mildness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relatively mild winter may well not be cause for celebration or, given this week's temperatures, nostalgia. Many scientists are now claiming that the consequences of the long-predicted "Greenhouse effect"--the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from air pollution causing temperature increases--are finally being felt. They assert that it is more than coincidence that the greatest temperature rises in the past few years have occurred Boston, New York and Los Angeles--cities with the most severe pollution problems...
...broader context, Heading Home is a suprisingly effective argument against many of the assumptions and priorities that shape the way we live our lives. Tsongas details the discovery of what he calls a "mild" form of cancer (Is he on the level?), his reactions; his treatment by Dr. Canellos in Boston, the reactions of his staff and friends. He wants us to feel his anguish. Not so that we will pity him, but only to jar us from our complacent attitudes towards the roles of success and career...
...third of Scott's mild and curious heroines, a sort of professional consoler to be found at the bedsides of the series' variously suffering characters, Geraldine James is unremittingly sensible. So too is Charles Dance as Guy Perron, the thoughtful, soft-spoken officer with whom she feels rapport. But the most dominant of all the performances is that of Pigott-Smith as Merrick. Holding together the entire series with the black magic of a self-made lago, he is a picture of twisted pride and prejudice, his face permanently pinched, his upper lip invariably quivering toward a sneer...
...from Spain, oh, mercy mild...
Western Europe also has its share of potential disasters. That lesson was made clear eight years ago, when a chemical reaction at a plant in Seveso, outside Milan, Italy, set off a mild explosion, discharging a cloud of between 1 lb. and 22 lbs. of poisonous dioxin into the atmosphere. Since then, 10 million cu. ft. of contaminated earth has been buried in large pits and covered with clay, plastic sheets and cement. Newly seeded grass masks any signs of the event. Although no one died because of the mishap, it remains to be seen whether the local cancer rate...