Word: placidness
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...Pictures are made the way the prince gets children," Picasso remarked a little later, "with the shepherdess." In Marie-Thérèse, he found a shepherdess?a placid, ill-educated and wholly compliant blond, who had never heard of him or his work, and offered nothing that even Picasso's egotism could interpret as competition. She became an oasis of sexual comfort. His images of Marie-Thérèse reading, sleeping, contemplating her face in a mirror or posing (in the Vollard suite of etchings) for the Mediterranean artist-god, Picasso himself, have an extraordinarily inward quality, vegetative and abandoned...
...million, though, the Hunts have put together a sizable care package for themselves. In January and February a ten-bank consortium loaned a subsidiary of the Bache Group, the brothers' main broker, at least $233 million, which was backed by 17.5 million oz. of silver. By early April Placid Oil, the Dallas oil company owned jointly by Bunker, Herbert and the four Hunt children of their father's first marriage, was negotiating a nine-year $1.1 billion loan...
...contrast to Harvard, MIT's relationship with Cambridge over the past decade has been relatively placid. But this is largely due to MIT's propitious location. While Harvard is surrounded by residential areas, MIT is contiguous with primarily industrial land. As a result, its territorial expansion has raised only a fraction of the ruckus caused by Harvard...
Alice Brown, as Persephone, is simply too placid. She may be the anchor in a stormy household, the practical support for two restless dreamers, but nonetheless (indeed, as a result of this) her frustration should be evident in subconscious glimpses early on and flashes of anger later. When she tries to explain to Linda why she married George--Persephone's most touching speech--Brown fails to communicate the depth of this woman's love and the strength of her character. (In all fairness, it must be stated that Brown took over the role only two weeks before the opening...
...recall of Calvin does not mean remorse among the Genevans. The city, despite its placid lakeshore site, is a grim spot enlivened mainly by nocturnal vices: gambling, drinking, whoring. In one notorious district there is a tavern for every three dwellings. Though he cherishes his own ration of wine (teetotaling comes later in Protestant history), the cleric inveighs against every excess. He condemns dancing as a prelude to fornication and finds Genevan feasting obscenely luxurious. (Among the new ordinances he demands is one limiting banquets to three courses of a mere four plates each...