Word: timidation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrival in London for the stage musical I Do! I Do! Hudson, who opened last week with Singer-Dancer Juliet Prowse in the two-character marital spoof, should have kept the screamer locked within. The London Sun found Rock's singing so far off-key as to make "timid dogs sit on their haunches and howl at the moon." As for his hoofing ability, the paper's critic was relieved to find that Prowse "is fast enough on her feet to prevent any damage to her toes when Rock is called on to do an occasional, stiff-backed...
...Birds: A Dialogue," is a sarcastic, earthy blast against what Chinese editorials have long called the "goulash Communism" of the Soviet Union. It depicts a conversation between two birds, one a giant roc that soars over the earth, with "the blue sky on its back," and the other a timid sparrow "scared stiff" in his bush. The world is in chaos ("Gunfire licks the heavens,/ Shells pit the earth"), and the sparrow wants to escape to "a jeweled palace in Elfland's hills." The roc replies angrily...
...lecturer, is most convincing with small groups, and tended at the outset of the campaign to avoid speaking before big crowds. Stocky, abrasive Muldoon is a cost accountant with a pugnacious political style that proved to be a powerful attraction on the campaign trail. Muldoon criticized Rowling as "too timid and too tentative" to be Prime Minister. Although New Zealand is not exactly beset by a crime wave, Muldoon promised law-and-order government. He also attacked Labor's economic record-inflation has risen from 5.5% in 1972 to 14.8% this year-and accused the government of mortgaging...
...oblivious to the start and finish of the film they'll happen on. Mostly men buy 300 passes to the triple-X-rated features each day. These movies are made for men, she says. They realize that she knows what they plan on doing in there, and they're timid. A few Orientals brush by with their hands shoved stiffly into their pockets. They probably came down Beach St. from China Town...
Michaels catalogues the degradation in all this, but distinguishes, even in a corrupt social order, between those who are solely degraded--women, children, unlucky timid males--and the young men whose with privileges them to degrade others as well. The book's title expresses this, lifted from a letter of Byron's which tells of the poet's reaction to three executions...