Word: softener
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convinced that his company is now diversified enough to protect it against sudden shocks in any one segment of the economy, insists that his rush for major acquisitions is over. "What remains," he says, "is some fine adjustments-sell a bit here, buy a bit there." Wall manages to soften the hectic 16-hour-a-day pace of his business life by relaxing with his family, which he calls "my breathing space." Every weekend he, his wife Ann, his son Johan, 11, and his daughter Osa, 7, escape to the family's 600-acre farm at Starfors. Ironically...
...quiet voice, the understated grace of his movements, the sweet almost boyish manner, contrasting so curiously with the violent deeds he performs, have a remarkable way of gaining sympathetic interest not so much through command as through insinuation. In a western, where spacious landscapes and historical distance seem to soften the impact of his brutal methods of problem solving, Eastwood is not simply a symbol of the modern taste for random and gratuitous bloodletting in films. Rather, he reminds us of a traditional American style of screen heroism-a moral man slow to rile but wonderfully skilled when he must...
Inhibiting the Law. Eanes tried to soften his image during the campaign by doffing his trademark dark glasses and even kissing an occasional baby, but at his first press conference as President-elect, he lived up to his reputation as a ramrod disciplinarian. Stressing Portugal's need for "a homogeneous, cohesive and operational government," he warned that "insurrectional activities will no longer be tolerated, no matter which direction they come from." Referring to worker and peasant takeovers of factories and farms in southern Portugal, he accused the instigators of "intimidating the population and inhibiting...
...women do learn to use their bodies and their sexuality. Sometimes it seems hard to get men to listen to a woman unless she humbles herself a little--there are too many jokes about the shrewish type. When a woman says no, her body tends to find ways to soften or deny her words; Chesler and Goodman call it using her body "deferentially." She adopts certain mannerisms as a way for daring to threaten, rather than to put men at their ease. It is more acceptable for women than men to behave childishly, thereby rendering themselves less imposing as sexual...
Survival Strategies. The rising terror has been coupled with ruinous inflation, currently running at a rate of 600% a year and caused largely by the feckless government economic policies. While the treasury presses out billions of pesos each week to finance rising deficits, the Peron regime has tried to soften the inflation's impact on wage earners by imposing artificial ceilings on service and commodity prices. These ceilings, in turn, have severely squeezed farmers and businessmen, with the result that goods and services are simply disappearing...