Word: tepidity
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...debate, however tepid, will produce a few images likely to stick with viewers. Some highs and lows...
Treasury Secretary James Baker gave Reed a more tepid endorsement. Said he: "I venture that all in all it will be seen as a positive step." Baker, who presumably had concerns that Citicorp's actions might discourage other banks from participating in his Third World initiative, nonetheless expressed hope that the bank will continue lending in Latin America, where it has $14.8 billion in loans outstanding. Citicorp is particularly exposed in Brazil ($4.6 billion), Mexico ($2.9 billion), Argentina ($1.5 billion) and Venezuela ($1 billion...
...soup of dark shadow, with the work on which it is based: Manet's Olympia. There, one has all the contrast between what is deep and what is genteel, between brazen, ironic intelligence and mere sensibility, between the harsh confrontational skills of a great talent and the tepid virtuosity of a popular one. This show is too much of a medium-good thing, and its ever docile public has been led to it by the nose...
...York City, the Metropolitan Opera favors conservative productions, sometimes elephantine ones like Franco Zeffirelli's La Boheme and Tosca, that reinforce the company's role as a musical museum. Occasionally, the rival New York City Opera makes a cautious foray into modernism, often with indifferent results -- Frank Corsaro's tepid Spanish Civil War version of Carmen, for example...
...image of the paradisiacal Mediterranean that still haunts our imagination -- despite its present-day reality of myriad gridlocked campers frying in the sun at the tepid edge of a half-dead sea -- was created by these painters and their followers. Their relations with this place, or more properly their invention of it, gave modernism its one practical utopia of the senses, a bourgeois Eden whose roots wound back through a coastal peasant culture (still unhurt by tourism in the 1920s) to the Greco-Roman past. Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes...