Word: staid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the magic world of America's largest retailer. Sears has taken a fancy to Tiegs, embracing her in its catalog and TV commercials and identifying itself with her wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years short of its 100th birthday, the once staid and conservative Sears is showing the friskiness of a teen-ager who has won a date with Tiegs. In fact, some people would say that Sears has become downright sassy...
...recurring images: woman as spider, devouring her mate once she has lured him to sexual consummation; woman as elusive Madonna, offering salvation to wayward boys if only they can catch her attention; campy sacrilege committed on Catholic iconography gloomy reflections on the artist's unhappy lot in a staid bourgeois society, with particular reference to Holland, where the audience is uneconomically small and the language is not exactly a popular international currency...
...this is to be expected at the Harvard summer school, a place of unpredictability, strangeness, extremes...well...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showed up one summer to study Arabic. It's almost the exact opposite of staid regular-year Harvard, which cruises along tradition-bound and stuffy. Summer School Director Marshall R. Pihl '55 would rather not have us believe this. He wants us to believe in Traditional Harvard. He writes in the introduction...
...moment, the tragedy is that Ed Markey missed a stellar chance to join the great American screw-up tradition (if he lost the senate race) or to agitate a glacially staid legislative body (if he won). Now that...
...normally staid Signet Society was shaken by controversy last week over invitations to the club's tres formal Annual Dinner at President Bok's formal residence on 17 Quincy Street...