Word: tamed
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...VIEW dreams as either tree farms or jungles. They can be logical, symmetrical and tame, set out in rows of trees that can always be distinguished from the untamed woods. Such neat dreams are a comfort to the tidy who enjoy right-angles and other intellectual exercises in geometry. But dreams are more often, and more interestingly, knottings of old and new--blends of what is real, what is probable, and what is only possible. Dreams are more an impression of reality than a photographic re-creation of it. They are made up of substance and shade, as are pictures...
...Kiev," the performance seemed a bit weighted down and torpid in parts. The quick changes of mood in the "Promenades," with the horn, winds and violins heralding a new picture, were well enough evoked. But in certain spots, such as the high-pitched "Il Vecchio Castello," the Orchestra seemed tame...
...Divinity at the Divinity School, feels that all religions that prosyletize "just try to persuade people that their view is the right view." He said he thinks "there is no doubt that the Unification Church is already blending into the religious atmosphere of the country. They will soon get tame and conventionalized." Cox compared the Unification Church to the Mormon Church, noting that the Mormons were also persecuted when they were founded--and that they also mix business and religion. "They own the state of Utah," he said, "but they are respectable and Moonies...
...underlying principle of all successful sex magazines, from the relatively tame Playboy to the raunchy Stag and Cheri, hinges on the absolute degradation of women. Page after page shows women being strung up, knocked down, beaten with objects too numerous to mention, pierced in places too delicate to mention, and I would go on, but I have my roommates to consider. When Nora Ephron withdrew her name from a newspaper advertisement protesting Larry Flynt's conviction, I do not think she was especially offended by the "blue collar" sensibilities of Hustler. I do not think sophisticated French pronography would have...
...truce, imposed by an Arab peace-keeping force dominated by Syrians, restaurants have begun serving after dark for the first time in months, and nightclubs like the opulent Casino du Liban are jumping once more. Movie theaters reopened with a run of The Exorcist-which most Beirutis found tame compared with the all-too-real horrors they had experienced during the fighting...