Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...couldn't rid its flavor from our mouths. The Sprite was too tame to conquer its flavor; the chicken's juice spread like a cancer through the rest of our plates. First it took over the rice, then the pasta. One friend of Dartboard was lucky enough to move his roll from his contaminated plate before it was too late...
DOLLY PARTON's brand of music doesn't normally conjure up images of a crowded club full of sweaty bodies gyrating until dawn. But that may change now that the singer who makes Antoni Gaudi's buildings look tame has had a few cuts off her latest album, Treasures, remixed as dance tunes. The deed was done by Junior Vasquez, a New York City nightclub fixture and producer, who says the first cut, Peace Train, is already a big hit at Arena, the club where he's a deejay. "If I don't play it, they start shouting...
...will try to tame Fenno without censoring him," Friedman said. "Fenno will continue to do the things he has always done, but we'll be more careful in the future about people who have a radical interpretation of Fenno...
...weakest short in the festival is "Carrotblanca," made in 1995. Compared with the other "classic" cartoons, this "Casablanca" parody is tame, functioning more as a showcase of characters than as a pure comedy. The animators were so busy trying to maximize the cartoon's appeal by working everyone--Bugs, Sylvester, Tweety, Yosemite Sam, People Pew and the others--into a tenminute short that the gags are neglected...
...then there are the dream sequences: a fairly tame but eerie sexual fantasy near the beginning; and later, a dream involving a series of black and white images, beginning like an early '20s film reel but dissolving into even more dreamlike images of whispering lips and a hand gripping Isabel's waist--first clothed, then naked...