Word: tepidity
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THEATER was the medium that held the most promise--and thus the one that proved the most disappointing when it failed to live up to that promise. Tepid revivals of high school warhorses and plays that had become screenplays dominated the stages...
Well, that's exactly what Picinic is: a prickly, tepid and altogether irritating play about growing up in the Midwest. And the actors strut across the stage as if they've had too much...
While his conventional rivals increasingly seemed tepid, technocratic and tedious, Jackson was fueled by that most elusive of political energy sources: true momentum. It was that quality, along with his popular vote lead in the primaries, that earned Jackson the sobriquet front runner. For the moment, the "rainbow coalition" was reality, not rhetoric, as white voters enlisted in the Jackson crusade to tear down racial barriers. Even though Dukakis handily won last week's Connecticut primary, 2 to 1, network exit polls gave Jackson roughly 20% of the white vote. This Tuesday's Wisconsin primary provides another tough test: Jackson...
Donato represented his class well Saturday, sitting on top of the scoring bandwagon with two goals and an assist. The senior class got a solid effort from goalie John Devin, who had turned in a tepid performance against Clarkson in the ECAC semifinal game Friday, but recorded 19 saves Saturday...
...local boy who made really good, he traded his apron for a doctor's smock at medical school, eventually joined Merck and by 1986 had become the company's chairman, president and chief executive officer. Under the spell of Vagelos' visionary vigor, the company has recovered from a tepid performance in the early 1980s to become the world's No. 1 prescription drugmaker. Though many Americans probably could not name a single Merck product, especially since its Sucrets sore-throat lozenge and Calgon bubble- bath brands were sold in 1977, physicians and pharmacists are very familiar with the company...