Word: timidation
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...take on any serving of five-alarm chili, no problem, Jalapeno peppers do not faze me. I will always go for the "Hot" salsa; "Mild" is for the timid-of-tastebud...
...zeitgeist was changing. For all his street sass and gutter gargle, Murphy is basically a middle-class star, closer to Bill Cosby than to the new wave of African-American filmmakers (Spike Lee, John Singleton) and rapmasters (all those hot Ices). Their marketable anger made Eddie look timid, irrelevant, a hipper but still compromised version of the old Negro clown -- a white man's black...
...would be the agent of change, the only alternative to the do-nothing status quo of George Bush. Now it is Perot who embodies this anti-Establishment anger, while the Democratic challenger is suddenly relegated to an uncomfortable me-too role as the candidate offering change for the timid voters still loyal to the orthodoxies of two-party politics. As a longtime friend of Clinton puts it, "Bill has to rethink this race because Perot has taken some of the ground that he intended to occupy. But until now Bill has been too tired, and too occupied with the primaries...
Despite the eventual revival of the department, Nelson regrets not having taken a more active position and joined the protestors. "I feel that we [in the BSA] were kind of timid in our action," she says. "We didn't want to sit in, but we wanted to support those who were. Looking back I would have had the board and the membership agree to sit-in with the others because that would have been such a strong showing...
...tatty sets and monotonous line readings, they play like doomed dress rehearsals. First you are drawn into the catastrophe of the filmmaking process, like a rubbernecking motorist passing a road kill. Then you notice that these movies are doubly subversive: they not only subvert themselves, they rebel against the timid rules of traditional filmmaking. In this sense, bad movies are the first modernist movies, as the French long ago realized. "Learn to go see the 'worst' films," wrote Ado Kyrou in the 1957 Le Surrealisme au Cinema. "They are sometimes sublime...