Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consistently tries to come closer to the wolves' style of life, as his attempt to approximate their diet (mice) and territory-marking habits illustrate. These two comical and slightly disgusting episodes grow out of the film's deeply serious message, that it is not for us to quantify and tame nature, but simply to live in it and marvel...
...JOHN GLENN in Philip Kaufman's production of Tom Wolfe's. The Right Stuff says "by golly" a lot, as in, "by golly, my kids are behind me 100 percent." Even after the Russians move ahead in the space race. Glenn still favors rather tame condemnations, as in, "darned Russians." Fellow astronaut Gus Grissom, not given to such restraint in speech, turns to Glenn and adds, "Fucking A," Glenn then pauses, and so does the movie, awaiting a response that will characterize not only The Right Stuffs John Glenn but also The Right Stuff itself. His earlier moralistic preaching forgotten...
...Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara...
...Complete Stories, Nahum N. Glatzer, editor -The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco -Slouching Towards Kalamazoo, Peter De Vries Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara...
...drawn from her diaries to be published next spring, gives a livelier picture. A lawyer's daughter from Shropshire, she lived an intense student life at Oxford in the '30s. Her knowledge of the sad imbalances of love came from several unfortunate affairs. Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle, about middle-aged sisters, was written in 1935 when she was 21 (it was revised and published 15 years later). Already certain she would be a writer, she fashioned the story by imagining her sister and herself 30 years hence. The dolorous silence that supposedly followed her rejection...