Word: restraint
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...indulgent: every vista is sweeping, every valley is shrouded in mist, every stream plunges impressively down a rock face. Any minute, you expect to see those damn flamingos. The soundtrack is equally overblown, with swelling orchestration to hammer every point home. There are no quiet bits; there is no restraint whatsoever. If "Dances With Wolves" was masturbatory, "The Last of the Mohicans" experiments with autoerotic asphyxiation. Motorhead, playing Wagner, would be more subtle...
Spelling's shows once so dominated ABC's prime-time schedule that a rival producer called him "practically a one-man restraint of trade." But as his programs dropped off the schedule, Spelling dropped out of sight, resurfacing < only occasionally with short-lived duds like NBC's Nightingales. Then in 1990 he made a comeback with a very un-Spelling-like hit: Fox's high school drama, Beverly Hills 90210. Now he has four new series scheduled to air this summer and fall, the first of which, Melrose Place, has just debuted on Fox. No doubt about it, Spelling...
...need is not just for restraint but also for creativity. There are opportunities for economic growth that bear the environment in mind. There is money to be made in efficient use of resources and in new technologies that make it possible. This intriguing and encouraging message -- that environmental sensitivity is an essential element of competitiveness -- comes from the Business Council for Sustainable Development, which includes CEOS of many prominent corporations...
Chinese officials confirmed that the explosion was for military purposes, but then blandly added that Beijing's testing program has "exercised restraint" to conform with the government's "basic position for complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons...
...force. During the 1970s, 16 blacks died as a result of choke holds administered by Los Angeles police. Police chief Daryl Gates defended the use of the procedure at the time, suggesting that blacks had some anatomical weakness that made them especially vulnerable to that method of restraint...