Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...irrelevant and in the end proved distracting. Let's be clear about this: Jackson was the featured speaker, and he alone was the reason that people waited on line a full hour before the program began. He does not need Mansfield in order to draw a crowd. Is the staid IOP so wary of Jackson's message that they feel it must be tempered by someone like Mansfield? In my opinion, the Kennedy School showed extremely poor form by asking Mansfield to provide a rebuttal. Where was the rebuttal when Barbra Streisand spoke? How about Warren Christopher? Why didn...
...many of the same sources who suggestedSummers as a candidate seemed bewildered thatsomeone who appears so politically ambitious wouldmove into a relatively staid deanship...
Welles' talent for aging into the bitter, declining Kane is truly remarkable. And as the young Kane, full of fire and utopian spirit, he is unstoppable. Sweeping through the staid New York Inquirer, the young man announces that the paper is to enter a new era, "If the headline is big enough, it makes the news big enough!" Kane soon proves that his new journalism sells--that he can fight for the downtrodden while boosting his circulation; that he can create wars with a run of his press; and power in the world can't bring him what he wants...
Bring on the chamber pots and powdered wigs! Don't be turned off by a dry title announcing a seemingly dry period of history. "The Madness of King George" is a wild ride in a staid carriage. Virtually identical to British playwright Alan Bennett's very successful original stage play, Nicholas Hynter's film is not only great entertainment, but quality cinema...
...attraction went deeper than mutual admiration and concern. It was as if each woman saw in the other an uncompleted part of herself. The staid Old World thinker, comfortably married to a college professor, undoubtedly took vicarious enjoyment in McCarthy's romantic affairs. Arendt, six years younger than her friend, personified a high culture unattainable in America. McCarthy died in 1989, having spent nearly the last third of her life in Europe with her fourth and final husband...