Word: timidness
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...while being cared for at home. After a lengthy bureaucratic struggle, Margaret and Yves became the first parents in New York and the second parents in the nation to take home a child on life support. "The process transformed my personality," says Margaret. "I had been a shy and timid person, and I became brassy and obnoxious. I changed into a beast to protect my child...
...CAMERAS ARE PRETTY FANCY TOOLS. USE 'EM The 2005 movie version of The Producers looked almost exactly like the hugely successful Broadway show. Which was exactly the problem. Timid Matthew Broderick and loutish Nathan Lane are funny from $100 theater seats, but from $9 movie seats, they're assaultive. Audiences want more subtlety and more cinematic images, like the press conference scene in Chicago, when Renée Zellweger is a marionette on strings pulled by Richard Gere. "We're not interested in recreating a show for film, we're interested in reinventing a show for film," says Meron...
...recording industry responsible for erasing all curses and slurs—not just the three he finds most despicable—on all albums before releasing them, and without proposing some kind of penalty for radio stations that play partially edited songs, his demand strikes me as overly timid at best and disingenuous at worst...
When Tomoyo Nonaka took over Sanyo, the struggling Japanese electronics maker, in June 2005, she already had one strike against her. Nonaka was a female CEO in a business culture that is overwhelmingly male. A more timid executive would have charted a cautious course, focusing on slashing costs at a company that lost $1.6 billion in its 2005 fiscal year. But Nonaka, a former TV journalist, instead announced a bold plan to transform Sanyo into a leader in environmentally friendly products. "The 21st century is about turning away from oil to alternate forms of energy," Nonaka, 52, told TIME shortly...
When Tomoyo Nonaka in June 2005 took over Sanyo, the venerable but struggling Japanese electronics maker, she already had one strike against her. Nonaka was a female CEO in a business culture that is overwhelmingly male. A more timid executive would have charted a cautious course, focusing on slashing costs at a company that lost $1.6 billion in its 2005 fiscal year. But Nonaka, a former TV journalist with no executive experience, instead announced a bold plan to transform Sanyo into a leader in the production of environmentally friendly products like solar panels and energy-efficient refrigerators. "I think...