Word: timidity
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...scoffers in the rock critical Establishment, though, the 5-ft. 8-in., 115-lb. beauty is a black Barbie doll. To them, Whitney's voice, so willing to roam through the breadth of pop music, shows no emotional depth; they find the selection of her songs bland and timid...
...court's decision came at the dawn of a new era in public morality and popular art. TV was becoming the mass medium of the middle class, yoked to the old restrictions, made timid by its new power. And other media -- film, radio, music -- were freed or forced to retool their products for narrower, more intense audiences. Pop culture was now as fragmented as modern art, and movies were boutique items in the great mall of contradictory American tastes. Movies for kids: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957). Movies for mature adults: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...managers of two New York City nursing homes, Muriel Clark was a timid elderly woman whose son was determined to get her admitted, even if he had to fork over tens of thousands of dollars in "contributions" to do so. Little did they suspect that Clark, 81, was a volunteer state investigator. Clark's successful deception led to the arrests of three nursing-home officials for illegally soliciting donations in exchange for preferential treatment...
...surprisingly, Odysseus is a bit incredulous when Athena (Leta Fincher) explains it all to him. For a goddess of wisdom, Fincher's Athena seems unduly bloodthirsty, even going so far as to chide Odysseus for his timid revulsion. She's supposed to be that way, says my friend the purist, but this Athena revels in the bloodshed so much that she would horrify Lady Macbeth...
...science help shrinking violets blossom? Well, not yet. But Stanford University researchers believe they have identified a chemical key to shyness. In a study of 16 men at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Center, they found that timid types have lower levels of the brain chemical dopamine than more extroverted individuals (as measured by standardized personality tests...