Word: tamely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Which rides are better? As in all things, it is a matter of taste. Loops and corkscrews probably offer the rawest thrills-unadorned, mind-bending, stomach-stretching terror. Sans a 360° turnover, however, metal coasters are somewhat tame-too quiet and too smooth, and lacking the wooden coaster's capacity to engage the eye and the ear. Riding a wooden roller coaster is like barnstorming in a biplane; a trip in a metal coaster is like flying to Cleveland in a jumbo jet. Both will take you where you want to go-a little bit out of your...
Benign Magic. The result of these efforts requires patience from a modern audience. There is relatively little dancing in this version, and it seems tame. After Balanchine, one expects this immortal bird to fly in the open grand jetés Makarova does like lightning. Instead, she uses a gentler jump that resembles a small arc or, less politely, a hop. For her prince (Ivan Nagy), there is no dancing at all. Audiences of an earlier time enjoyed a pageantry that now seems static, however pleasing the tableaux...
...italics were his. Like his 19th century compatriots, James perceived Nature as a capital villain equipped with an arsenal of droughts and floods, hurricanes and plagues. What better use of the national zeal than to tame these forces for the commonweal...
Most of their adventures are like the weak-kneed camel that accompanies the pair: too tame. Even the sunniest tale needs an undertone of true menace to capture a child's imagination, as Disney in his early years rarely forgot. Here, in the movie's signature tune, Raggedy Ann sings that she's "just a rag dollie, happy and smiling all day." Fond, foot-tapping parents may tell themselves that this is enough. Kids know better...
...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...