Word: tepidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mickey Rourke as a patron saint and Mickey Mouse as the antichrist, they are simply proving their obsession with things American. U.S. pop is their guilty pleasure. The French love American culture even as they love to hate it. Four of their five top-grossing films are from Hollywood, tepid versions of U.S. game shows blanket French TV, and it isn't just American tourists who patronize the Burger King restaurants on the Champs Elysees...
...surprise when he and Brown had their picture taken together nine critical days before he met with Clinton. After meeting Clinton in Albany at week's end, however, Cuomo not only said their differences had been buried but paired glowing praise for the Arkansan with an extremely tepid mention of Brown. "As a package, Bill Clinton will make in my opinion a superb President," said Cuomo. "Jerry Brown, I will support if he is the candidate, given the alternative...
Miss Julie attempts to seduce Jean in an amusing sequence that displays Miss Julie's awkward flirtatiousness and a Jean's tepid masculinity. When Jean finally leads his master's daughter to lose her "virtue," she becomes terribly upset (considering the play takes place in an era when piety determines social standing); Miss Julie fears what her family's friends will think (ironic, considering since she wanted to bed Jean first...
During that next hour, King dragged out one disingenuous response after another, but his voice stil poured out of radios nationwide, for talk radio is an addiction. And as the night slid on, so did the talk radio host, dissolving all the heated issues of the day into tepid conversations...
...Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in the Pennsylvania Senate race last fall. Here, Democrats believed, was a domestic issue they could use to help drive George Bush from the White House -- and Republicans feared they were right. And so last week the President, unnerved by declining approval ratings and a tepid response to the hodgepodge of tax cuts he proposed in his State of the Union address, unveiled his own prescription for reforming the health-care system...