Word: staid
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Singapore after dark isn't as tame as most of us have been led to believe. The nightclubs are stylish and thriving, and the usually staid government has even lifted its ban on bar-top dancing. But if you're looking for the real party animals, make for the Night Safari. Just a 15-minute taxi ride from the city center, this animal sanctuary, open daily from 7:30 p.m. to midnight, offers one of the best ways of viewing tropical fauna, since so many species are nocturnal. You can see striped hyenas howling at the moon, greater...
Less than six years ago, Kinsey & Co. .. brought out sexual behavior in the Human Male ... It was cluttered with statistical furniture and dull, technical writing; Saunders, a staid old medical publishing house, thought it would be doing well to sell 5,000 copies. By now, the first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability and was boon to radio comedians who found that Kinsey's name had become and acceptable synonym...
...arch-conservative justice defiled a usually-staid Institute of Politics forum last week, saying for the sake of argument that perhaps “sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged...
...continent known for samba and tango, Chile is the sober exception. But not for long, according to Mario Pablo Silva, managing director of the Casa Silva winery in Chile's Colchagua Valley, whose family's once staid operation is poised to make winemaking more of a fiesta. "By September," Silva gushes, "we plan to offer a high-end hotel with a restaurant, polo games during tastings, Chilean rodeo and horseback riding" beneath the Andes. Casa Silva and many other Chilean wineries are partying because their high-stakes bet--a red-wine grape called Carmenere--is paying off. Brought to South...
...rapidly discovered that Harvard theater was too staid and conventional for her experimental taste. “It was like Oklahoma! played forever, and I had no relationship to hoopskirts,” Nair says of the Harvard theater scene...