Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over those cones. He may soon take the reins of his movie career and write himself a script. Next fall he plans to play Estragon, with Steve Martin as Vladimir, in the Mike Nichols production of Waiting for Godot -- thus synthesizing Juilliard and wackiness. Personally, however, Williams is quieter, more settled. He is past bouts of alcohol and cocaine dependence. Separated from his wife of nine years, he now keeps company with his personal secretary, Marsha Garces. And he is famously devoted to his four-year-old son Zachary...
...anyone who works at a low-pressure, no-risk service job faces a daily battle with a quieter, more maddening foe: ruthless, relentless tedium. For some, "busy work" is a way of life. Get up. Go to work. Perform the same task over and over till lunch. Hope for some excitement. Perform the same task over and over till quitting time. Try not to go crazy...
Activists like Skolrood believe that the Religious Right, far from fizzling, will now be "more sophisticated and more encompassing." There are compelling signs of a quieter political competence. Sociologist Nancy Ammerman of Emory University points to "grass-roots organizations all over the place putting the conservative agenda in place -- locally, not nationally. Now they walk through the halls of capitols and do horse trading." In a parallel development, Fundamentalists have been steadily consolidating control of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention. One indicator of their impact was last month's resignation...
...running. From the truck's back, a large German Shepard leaps out, a thick piece of wood between his teeth. The driver checks the frontdoor of one of his client's homes and calls Dusty back to his place. In the background, almost incidentally, Tom's rendering of a quieter street in a colder season, looks...
Even the tight ends, usually quieter figures in Harvard's Multiflex offense, got into the action. Kent Lucas caught three passes for 76 yards and a touchdown. Backup Don Gajewski caught four for 72 yards...