Word: staids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...precincts and bank branches, at more than 50 companies and at major commuter points like Grand Central station. There New York Cares has set up a display of coats from such celebrities as New York Knicks star Charles Smith (a towering blue worsted) and Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani (a staid gray tweed) to tweak the conscience of suburbanites. The coats are turned over to 200 agencies around the city to be given to those who need them. New York Cares says it costs less than $1 a coat...
...good joke, eliciting a chuckle from the audience. But even more, it was symbolic: gone were the staid, pedantic sermons of the aging Joe Restic, and in were the Leno-like one-liners of a young, vibrant coach on the rise...
Murdoch, who built his News Corp. empire on sensation-mongering tabloids, still loves to exert leverage and shake things up. In Britain earlier this month, critics charged that his cuts in the newsstand price of the staid London Times and the tabloid Sun were predatory moves to drive rivals out of business, which he denies. In New York City, angry employees threatened to shut down the bankrupt Post, which Murdoch owned from 1976 to 1988 and began running again last April in preparation for repurchasing it and rescuing it from collapse. The employee threat was prompted by management demands...
...Wednesday, Bernstein's adopted hometown will honor his legacy when it renames a stretch of West 65th Street near Lincoln Center "Leonard Bernstein Place," putting Bernstein in New York City's street-naming pantheon along with W.C. Handy, Malcolm X and Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Even the normally staid Carnegie Hall is getting into the act with an exhibition of Bernstein memorabilia called "Here We Go!! Love, Lenny...
Most revealing is Nelson's stark depiction of the huge disparity between her pre-Post free-wheeling lifestyle and the staid corporate life which replaced it. She tries to present this as a titanic struggle between principles and filthy lucre. In reality, it just shows that she fails to understand the basic tenets of capitalism as practiced in the United States...