Word: tame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tame Those Tigers...
...horror because the basic cliches are never even slightly twisted around or brought to life--only heavy-handedly presented. An attempt to inject humor into a subject like "Create" emerges as a limp, indecisive parody. Only "Creeping Upon You" contains a truly visceral moment of horror among all this tame nonsense, and even that has more to do with the by that time welcome presence of 40,000 live cockroaches than any storytelling skill. Creepshow is disappointingly bland, commercial, and far removed from its pulp roots...
...which comes to fairly tame conduct when one considers that after ten days of the scare, the motives, the scope and the murderer(s) remained unknown. Yet there is an astonishing amount of pure wide-eyed trust that people give their social structures, no matter how fragile they are shown to be. What the public has done in the face of this particular emergency is simply to shift its faith temporarily from the pillmakers and sellers to several other social institutions: the Government, the police, the media. These institutions are hardly those that the public always believes...
...bison, and one of them was born last week," he says happily, "... and baby geese, baby turkeys, plus I have two bears and there's alligators, and we're raising all kinds of ducks. I'm making a garden of Eden. It's amazing how tame things will get when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same." For the moment, in this private place, Captain Outrageous, also known as the Mouth of the South, has become Peaceable Ted. Naturally, he takes his peace the way he fought his competition...
...transition in Right Place from gripping accounts of such events as the Kennedy assassination to philosophical reflections on the news business makes for a rather tame climax. But a book about this unique career in TV news would not be complete without some explanation of why a man would refuse the salary and glamor of the network anchor chair. And in spite of the plodding conclusion. MacNeil's book remains on balance a lively and informative work...