Word: staid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Shawn. The New Yorker's editor, whom Wolfe called "the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer" of the magazine. Wolfe later explained that he wrote the piece as outrageously as he could, trying to be as sensational as The New Yorker was staid. A sort of reverse parody. Shawn wouldn't grant an interview, or let his picture be taken (both are matters of policy with him), so Wolfe spent much of his first installment talking about the obsessive secrecy at The New Yorker's 43rd Street offices. His piece began...
Etzioni's bustling omnipresence has earned him an array of detractors. Staid social scientists tend to view him as a pushy hustler, and the American Sociological Association's newsletter has received complaints that he is quoted entirely too much in its pages...
...imagine anything/ that I would less like to be/ than a disincarnate Spirit"). So do the "nimble technicians" of Detroit ("Dark was the day when Diesel/ conceived his grim engine"), partly because they cannot be bothered to build "what sanity knows we need,/ an odorless and noiseless/ staid little electric brougham...
...that staid Lisbon has yet turned into another Copenhagen. But sexually explicit Danish magazines are now available on newspaper kiosks along with tamer publications like Penthouse. Uncut versions of previously forbidden films such as Last Tango in Paris and A Clockwork Orange are drawing huge crowds. A dubbed-in-Portuguese version of Deep Throat has been approved for import. Bawdy, undulating, take-it-all-off strippers from France and Italy are lending new interest to traditional vaudeville. Enthusiastic audiences flocked to see Last Fado in Lisbon, featuring a French stripper named Poupée la Rose...
...Reflections's strongest point isn't what it does for the patrons. In an uncharacteristic move for a cafe owner, James doesn't seek the big staid names in the music business and instead puts local talent at the microphone...