Word: tame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hornstein had probably been expecting a tame amendment simply calling on the military to admit gays and lesbians. But instead, he got an amendment with teeth that threatened to torpedo his goal of ROTC at Harvard. And Hornstein backed down from his previous enlightened stand...
Also promising but in need of a further draft or two is Crews' Blood Issue, an old-fashioned play of a family gathering leading to late-night revelation. The secret is tame by current standards: a man who feared his blood was tainted asked his best friend to sire his children. But the real problem is that the central character, who is a writer and who presumably stands in for the author, is almost devoid of particularity: his only trait is drunkenness. On the plus side were pungent dialogue, believable family conflict and forgiveness, and deft performances by Anne Pitoniak...
...Soviets get to watch sexual barriers fall like dominoes in slow motion. Little Vera features a love scene -- 82 seconds of topless necking and a quick tickle under Vera's dress -- that has shot viewers' eyebrows up through their hairlines. By American cable-TV standards the episode might be tame, but in a culture as repressed erotically as it is politically, Little Vera is big news...
...Crimson dove for ground balls and capitalized on Princeton's middling stickwork to gain control Saturday. The Tigers were tame compared to how they played at the William and Mary tournament...
...system is supposed to tame the Soviet Union's problems of waste, inefficiency and food shortages. Citizens continue to queue daily for limited stocks of meat, butter and milk. Small wonder Gorbachev calls food "one of the most important problems we need to solve...