Word: tamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Monopoly, though, seems outrageously tame next to Adorable Dora. A plastic hippopotamus in a low-cut dress, Dora dances-- "Swings"-- and mouths the lyrics that you, four or older, are actually singing from a nearby plastic microphone...
...animals have now become a big business. Advertisers issue casting calls to rental agencies like New York City's All-Tame Animals or directly to trainers who maintain their own menageries. Ford leased its leaping lynx from Lloyd Beebe, the owner of Olympic Game Farms in Sequim, Wash. Beebe's 300 or so actors in residence, including elephants, rhinos and wolves, earned $2 million last year from commercials, movies and television shows. His business is growing at about 15% annually...
Pathé was tried last May, but for the most part his writing was not examined in court. Compared with the normal stream of invective and accusations running through France's hyperactive partisan press, Pathé's personal editorializing seemed tame indeed. As one French intelligence officer acknowledges, "If the court had only ruled on what Pathé wrote, he would not have been condemned...
Corporate product-plugging accounts for the presence of such mediocre bands as the Urban Verbs, Pearl Harbor and Robin Lane, all of which sound slick, derivative and, well, utterly tame in comparison to their earlier counterparts...
...every one such painting there were a dozen tame, regional variations on then popular French artists like Bastien-Lepage or Tissot, whose work provided a palatable substitute for the analytic modernity represented by impressionism at its best. Hence the Boston show is heavily freighted with affable but basically in sipid dining-room pictures of young Wasp rosebuds swathed in yards of white voile, clustered on lawns, playing on beaches, posing on verandas or picking flowers. They make one realize how badly America needed modern art. Not until the ad vent of some of the impressionist-influenced painters of "the Eight...