Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive producer Dianne Atkinson Hudson. The show is still capable of sensational moments, such as Winfrey's on-air confession two weeks ago that she had used cocaine. But most of her recent topics-couples with credit problems, people who have had bad experiences calling 911-would seem hopelessly staid to her voyeuristic competitors...
...fourth movement, an Air, Grieg mixes his lyricism with the staid and screne qualities reminiscent of Corelli's Concerti Grossi. Unfortunately, the viola section began to lose their intonation as they brought forth the Air's long lines. The quickly paced Rigaudon brought the group back into synch, though, and allowed Yoo to show off his own virtuosity as solo violinist...
...Larry Karaszewski (based on Rudolph Grey's excellent 1992 biography, Nightmare of Terror), posits Wood as a classic American optimist, a Capraesque hero with little to be optimistic about, since he was also a classic American loser. That's a fine start, but the film then marches in staid chronological order: Ed made this bad film, then this one, then a third. It focuses on the director's curious cast of hangers-on (played here by Bill Murray, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie and others). They were all, as Wood's psychic sidekick Criswell intones in the 1965 Orgy...
...nothing wrong with using a column as a vehicle for social change. And Quindlen's writings have been bitingly sharp, as in one of her September columns when she explained in quite clear terms why Barbie does not endure P.M.S. Before Quindlen, such social commentaries were taboo for the staid Times...
...Restic regime should never be confused with tooth decay, its time had clearly passed. Restic's multiflex--once bold, exciting and dashing--had become outlandlish and revealing, like a bold tie a middle-aged man might wear to compensate fora retreating hairline. It was unreal, as were his staid sermons on the importance of education and values. Theyw were true, wonderful messages, but they didn't excite us: they were too Harvard...