Word: tamers
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...Discovery Channel’s take on reality TV romance resulted in a much tamer tête-à-tête than is standard for shows like “The Bachelor” or “elimiDATE.” The first date proved to be a multicultural learning experience, with the couple participating in a traditional tea ceremony at a Japanese Cultural Center followed by step dancing at an Irish-American club. In a happy coincidence, the night’s activities matched Totman’s passions—she studied in Dublin last spring...
...VISTAS Out by the Estrella Mountains, guests can can catch glimpses of wild horses. Trail rides on tamer beasts are available A GAMBLE Pima and Maricopa tribal leaders hope the joint venture with Sheraton will bring money into their community without relying on slot machines?although a casino is just a short trip away INDULGENCE The 16,260-sq.-meter spa is called Aji, a name derived from a place the Pima considered a sanctuary during battle...
...Because Cat III films were allowed to coexist with tamer fare in the same theaters, they didn?t have the toxic tinge that attaches to sexy and ultra-violent films elsewhere. In the U.S. and Europe, ?ultra? films are separate and lesser industries; for Hong Kong movie people, the line between mainstream and murky backwater is blurrier. Actors like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Danny Lee and Kent Cheng shuttled with impunity from one category to the other. They played cannibalistic or necrophiliac killers, crazed cops and deranged victims in Cat III movies, then went back to standard action movies...
...their bodies for spare change. (Then you can spend your ill-gotten gains on one of Liberty City's many prostitutes.) Video games are protected by the First Amendment, but when GTA3 was released in Australia, the government pulled it from shelves until Rockstar could come up with a tamer, edited version...
...modern business cycle really is tamer than it used to be, if the economy is now able to roll with the most horrific punches with its expansion more or less intact, it now seems that even more than Greenspan's rate policy or businesses' New Economy agilities, the modern American consumer deserves the lion's share of the credit. Trouble is, we may be about to find out that the first New Recession - the kind we're not even sure happened - may come with a New Recovery that's equally undramatic...