Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staid, well-spoken address at Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Red Cross President Elizabeth H. Dole exhorted graduating students to be "leaders, not labels...
There was a time when banks liked to present themselves as staid old conservative places. Not anymore. First, Citibank sponsored an Elton John tour. (So it's not the Foo Fighters--it's a start.) Now three show-biz types have bought a bank. MAGIC JOHNSON, JANET JACKSON and former head of Motown Records Jheryl Busby have spent about $3 million on a controlling share in the California-based Founders National Bank. They hope to use their contacts and drawing power to get the African-American elite to plunk their savings there. They also hope to be able to attract...
Even if you hate classical music to death for its staid canonical values that place a tradition on feigned understanding of expressive abstraction, or even if soloists who reach levels of technical sophistication matched only by the complete void of emotion don't float your boat, well, here's a good cause for you, featuring none other than yummy Joe Lin. This violinist, who is promoted prominently in windows at Claverly, will hold a charity solo concert for the HARMONY program, a community service organization that provides free music lessons to Cambridge public school children. Out of the classroom...
DIED. DAVID HICKS, 69, 1960s avatar of interior design who dressed the homes of the rich and famous with wall-to-wall flamboyance and fidgety fuss; of cancer; in Oxfordshire, England. Hicks, a sworn enemy of chintz, eschewed the staid flowery prints in favor of eye-popping solids, which he boldly mingled with modern paintings and patterned carpets. Among his chichi clientele: King Fahd and royals Prince Charles and Princess Anne, who became his peers after he married Lady Pamela Mountbatten...
...Orton'soffhand trivializations of incest, alcoholism andbrawny naked men. The characters become undressedas spontaneously as they walk onstage and wheneverthey do manage to redress themselves, it is alwayswith someone else's clothing, and that someone isalways of the opposite sex. This focus on theroaring sex drives of the usually staid Britishgives the audience a voyeuristic thrill inwatching the play. In addition, the number ofphallic jokes that abound in this play are enoughalone to give Freud reason for existence. Withfrenzied movements of calculated theatrical flair,the cast manages to eke out a even a few moreexaggerated and oversexualized actions than themultitude...