Word: timidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to his attorney, Hinckley was a lonely, timid child who became increasingly withdrawn as he grew up and finally retreated into a world of fantasies. Hinckley dropped in and out of college, went to Hollywood seeking instant success as a songwriter, created a mythical group called the American Front Organization. He became obsessed with the film Taxi Driver, the story of a loner who stalks a presidential candidate; Foster was featured as a child prostitute. After the murder of Lennon, Hinckley visited the Dakota apartment building in New York City and stood with a pistol in his pocket...
...unprecedented action by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. It might also prove too timid to achieve its goal...
...decision to cancel a major addition to the Fogg Art Museum remains somewhat unclear behind a haze of contradictory accounts and official "no comments." Harvard art patrons and Fine Arts faculty charge that the sudden end to a three-year dream came as a result of mysteriously timid planning and an underlying insensitivity to the needs of the nation's most prestigious college art collection and fine arts training facility. They add that at least $11 million in contributions and pledges solicited for the expansion project will be withdrawn...
According to most accounts, Paul is a very odd, timid exception in a city that has become famous for its violent children. In fact, the reverse is true. There are plenty of violent children in Belfast, to be sure: kids who kill time stealing cars for joyrides or lobbing petrol bombs at the army. But they are a small knot of a minority. Most Belfast children are like Paul. They have not all suffered so directly from the Troubles, but their response to the Troubles is similar. They carry no hatred in their hearts, they show a will to survive...
...story of yet one more mad housewife: Susan Anspach finds fear, loathing, debasement-in short, liberation-when she joins a carnal carnival of Slavic immigrants. Montenegro is a Laurel-and-Hardy jalopy of a film, putting along impudently and then suddenly stalling, out of everything but gall. In these timid days, gall may be enough, especially with Makavejev behind the camera and Anspach in front, giving one of the year's sweetest, smartest, sexiest performances...