Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STRANGE JUSTICE (SHOWTIME) Historical TV movies must be staid. They must tie up loose ends. Above all, they must take no artistic risks. Showtime's Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas docudrama broke all those rules, telling the Rashomon tale that launched the he-said-she-said decade with arresting images and a stubborn refusal to take sides...
While the House would later become a hotbed of campus radicalism, when Gore arrived to live there in the fall of 1966, it was still a staid, traditional Harvard house...
Gore was easy to talk to and very approachable. "I always liked him very much," Rosenblatt recalls, describing him as staid and a bit stiff--qualities that Gore is often criticized for today. "It was interesting that those same qualities which one admires without taint or adulteration as a young man are sometimes questioned as an older...
...does McKinsey & Co. hold its sessions at the posh and staid Loeb House? Why does Proctor and Gamble give every attendee a faux leather binder with calculator inside...
...groan. "Can't we just sleep instead?" Phillips runs through some words--assuage, brandish, staid--before getting down to business, a discussion of Eugenia Collier's short story Sweet Potato Pie. "What's unusual about this title?" No one bites, so she answers her own question. "It has pie! Now how many of you have not had sweet-potato...