Word: placide
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From the play's inception it becomes clear that tension lies behind the placid facade of Billy's life. His brother Kevin, superbly portrayed by Glenn Kessler, conceals an egocentric, materialistic, and greedy nature with an exterior of gruff amiability. He insensitively jokes about his "lunatic" brother behind his back almost as soon as he returns. Kevin's wife Fran (played with equal finesse by Janine Poreba) is perfect for him--she mocks her husband for his cruel egotism as often as she defends...
Starr had led a placid, quiet life at Harvard. He worked on statistics assignments--he is the Statistics Department's only undergraduate concentrator--and hung out with his friends...
...protect censored art. There are many other things besides art that have been cruelly and unconstitutionally censored. That is why a group of friends and I are forming a group called the soCiety fOr americaN freeDOM of expression. (Incidentally, because the acronym for this organization would be the rather placid and uninspiring "SAFE," we have decided to follow ORGASM's provocative lead by capitalizing the letters in such a way that our acronym is CONDOM...
...tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Wolff spears both social exculsivity and Princetonian pretension with his witty new novel, The Final Club. Wolff charts the voyage of Nathaniel Clay--a Seattle boy who is half-Jew, half WASP--from the deceptively placid waters of the 1950s, through the stormy seas of the 1960s, and finally to a shipwreck at the end of the 1970s...
...account of life with Michael is placid by comparison. Even the section on the 1988 campaign is an album of wardrobe decisions, packing tips and notes on sprays that remove wrinkles from clothing. Through it all Michael remains a shadowy figure: always decent, always supportive, often maligned. "He doesn't show his emotions easily, but, dammit," she swears, showing her emotions easily, "he has them. I wouldn't be married to him if he didn...