Word: timidating
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...would be easier to bemoan reality shows' crowding out sitcoms and dramas if the latter weren't in such a rut. But the new network shows of fall 2002 were a creatively timid mass of remakes, bland family comedies and derivative cop dramas. Network executives dubbed them "comfort"--i.e., familiar and boring--TV. Whereas reality TV--call it "discomfort TV"--lives to rattle viewers' cages. It provokes. It offends. But at least it's trying to do something besides help you get to sleep. Some upcoming reality concepts are idealistic, like FX's American Candidate, which aims to field...
...been branded a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department (as has the A.U.C., an umbrella group of vicious right-wing paramilitary armies, and a smaller leftist group known as the E.L.N.). Last week, Uribe convinced the U.N. Security Council to label them as such; and the usually timid Organization of American States pledged to help weaken the FARC, whose land-reform ideology has been poisoned by criminal enterprise. FARC rakes in an estimated $1 billion a year, largely by protecting cocaine traffic. Uribe gained an important victory when the E.U. promised to take "more decisive steps" to combat Colombia...
...Last year, I think Jenn Monti was the ultimate leader, in the games, in practice, off the court,” Moore said. “She definitely left some big shoes to fill. At the beginning of this year, I was a little timid of stepping in and taking on that leadership role...
...producer Lawrence O'Donnell, stars Josh Brolin as a political naif appointed to fill a vacant Senate seat. Populated with more straw men than an Iowa cornfield--sleazy lobbyists, nosy reporters, cynical legislators--Sterling plays safely down the political middle, making its stiff title character an independent. Like a timid primary hopeful, it has few convictions beyond pandering to viewers' feelings of superiority to all those bad people in Washington...
...sense, of course, the Bush Administration is anything but timid. From outside the U.S., the principal method that Washington has chosen to move toward its worldwide goals is very clear. It isn't diplomacy, and it isn't money for Middle East partnerships or seminars in legislative procedures. It comes in a uniform, and it delivers high-technology munitions...