Word: tepid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Congressional reaction was tepid, and it split as much along regional as along partisan lines. Many Congressmen from states hit hardest by unemployment felt the package did not go far enough. "We have a national problem that requires a national solution," declared Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan, where the unemployment rate has exceeded 10% for the past 39 months. "The Administration's economic policies helped create the problem, and the Administration is obligated to help solve it." The proposal to lower the tax cap to $160 drew some hoots. "The Administration is making a terrible philosophical and political...
Presciently modern, Ibsen foresaw that collectivized man would make egocentric quests for identity and searches for self. Peer's quest for self-definition becomes a tale of tepid damnation. The suave, cynical Peer of Part II (played with acute perceptivity by Gerry Bamman) defines himself by what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned...
...Caesar and Your Show of Shows is, of course, purely intentional, and in many other ways the film strives to capture the innocent heyday of live TV. My Favorite Year succeeds in this respect, but except for O'Toole's manic star turn, remains at heart a tepid movie...
...grape juice in plastic champagne glasses. But after the senate vote, more militant feminists dropped plastic bags filled with animal blood outside the capitol and scrawled the names of prominent ERA opponents in the fluid. Nine women were arrested and led away in handcuffs. Republican Governor James Thompson, whose tepid support of the ERA angered proponents, termed the blood smearing "vile and disgusting" and likened it to "painting swastikas on synagogues...
...aspirin and Reye's," admits Dr. M. Harry Jennison, director of the A.A.P. But, he points out, "aspirin is probably overused in general. You really don't have to jump on a fever with any drug very quickly." As an alternative, the academy suggests that parents use tepid sponge baths to reduce fevers...