Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't believe everyone thought I was a hot dog, because at home, everyone played that way," Hall explains. "As a matter of fact, in New York, I was considered a very tame player...
...logs also disclose the curious range of conversations that J.F.K. taped: a meeting about "the gift of two tame deer" and the retirement of two White House policemen; a telephone call to congratulate California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown on his election victory over Nixon in 1962; a talk with his brother in 1963 to discuss articles in TIME and Newsweek; even chats with his wife Jacqueline, on topics blacked out in the logs...
...will not buckle to the forces of the Great Conspiracy. We will not countenance those who would disagree with our Vision. We will not fail to tame Interest Rates and their perpetrators. We will not fail to loosen the fetters of the repressed crude-oil Priviligentsia. We will not fail to meet the test...
Ludwig gives up on his project to tame the Amazon region
Pixote is one of the most powerful films ever made about poverty and oppression in Latin America. Its lack of overt moral commentary is more than compensated for by its stark, at times shocking, realism. Even the most graphic American films seem tame by comparison. Babenco uses scenes of crude abortion and vicious sodomy to capture the misery of an impoverished and overpopulated Third World metropolis. Filth, noise, chaos, this is Pixote's world: grim walls, dim light, inane pop music blaring in the background...