Word: tranquillizing
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...legend: "Main Street Marching Band, leading the parade since 1884. Conductors: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells. We work, while you whistle." In fact, Eisner, Disney's CEO, and Wells, the company's president, have headed the procession only since 1984, when they turned Mickey's mausoleum -- a slumbering empire of tranquil theme parks and tepid movies -- into Walt II. Or, rather, Walt 2, for Disney has expanded exponentially, its ambition and energy personified by the two bosses. At 4 a.m. one day last week, each man could be seen wandering the park like a parent wrapping a beautiful...
...jumped off the page and into my inner conscience. In the middle of the page was a computer-drawn picture of Buddha, floating in an utterly tranquil, vaguely Eastern-looking landscape. My soul fluttered with excitement as I gazed at the sketchily rendered mountains, caves and lakes swimming around the serenely smiling Buddha. "Enlightenment...nirvana...soul mates ...concentration and meditation," the ad guaranteed. I was sure that here, in these totally "FREE" Boston Meditation Society sessions, was the remedy to my malaise...
...travels in packs, digs holes in lawns, eats flower gardens, poops around pools and spas and, worst of all, starts screeching as early as 4 a.m. For sheer irritation, rats, raccoons, skunks, pigeons and possums are no match for the more than 150 wild peacocks that infest this otherwise tranquil, posh Southern California community. The flock -- often 30 to 40 birds roosting in a single tree -- descends from six Indian peafowl released on the Palos Verdes Peninsula...
...sound of police and fire engine sirens interrupted the tranquil ceremony several times, and Knowles delivered the one-liner of the day when he commented in his distinctive British accent, "I might mention in passing that Cambridge does not usually burn down with the apparent frequency that it is this Sunday afternoon...
Many businessmen and political leaders believe the greater risks lie in not joining. In the long run, they reason, the emerging new Europe will forge ahead, leaving Switzerland behind with a declining and aging population, still prosperous and tranquil but stagnating outside the mainstream of history. "The train is leaving," says Hans Baer of Zurich's Julius Baer Banks...