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That loss didn't derail the Crimson Princeton-bound train, as both Mike Terner and Adam Beren--playing four and five, respectively-rebounded from first-set losses to win their matches. Terner beat Adil Toubia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Beren fought back to tame Lion Don Siegel...
...prose is remarkably untortured, simply but elegantly stated. For her, Robert Lowell "learned to tame the apocalyptic to the eternal dailiness of life"; Sylvia Plath "would like, in distrust of mind, to trust nature, and yet she...refuses nature any honorable estate of its own"; of Frank O'Hara, "The wish not to impute significance has rarely been stronger in lyric poetry...
...Reagan, a show business artifact whose time has come round again through video tape and the minicam. Reagan kept his eyes on the lens and himself under control, and he appeared on the screen as just about the only public figure of the moment who could both understand and tame the crazy world...
...this frivolous business." But designers and dragons alike could derive some inspiration from Anna Piaggi, contributor to both the French and Italian Vogue, who showed up one day with a large velvet reproduction of an art deco vase perched on her head. Piaggi's Milan millinery was pretty tame stuff compared with her headdress in Paris two years ago: a basket brimming with shrimp and other fresh seafood...
...saints, as they are not in other Lear and Haley shows, and the whites are generally either fire-breathing racists or pure-hearted liberals. There are also too many sentimental scenes that show the two young heroes frolicking in brotherly love on sunny fields. The results are so tame that not even a last-minute medical crisis can arouse any excitement...