Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guess, I have seen less than the normal ration of today's violent movies, but I've seen enough. To me the television scene was tame in comparison, to my father (who has seen none of the violence-packed movies) it was gruesome. He retains the capacity to be shocked; I've lost some of mine...
...course, the violence wouldn't be such a factor without the vivid animation. Some reviewers have complained about the over-head angles and sweeping panoramic views used in the film. Nuts to them. The wilds of Africa are not the tame civilization to get in the beauty and the devastation in the movie without a wide-scale dramatic presentation...
...would be easy to be overwhelmed by the world's biggest government building, housing the country's largest bureaucracy. But TIME's new defense correspondent, Mark Thompson, has found a way to tame the beast. "I don't view the Pentagon as some monolithic hulk," he says. "Once you add in family members and defense-industry workers, it is more like a city the size of New York. It has nice and not-so-nice neighborhoods, cozy bars, gangs and fiefdoms. Thinking of it in that way makes it less intimidating and almost friendly...
...Tame Fall...
Certain patterns, however, emerge frominterviews with this year's Mass Hall residents.When students lodged there now describedthemselves on rooming applications, nearly allcharacterized themselves as relatively tame "3's"on a scale of 1 to 5 for eating, sleeping, noisehabits...