"Cat videos seem to transcend language and culture," said Scott Stulen, the Walker curator in charge of the festival, whose life as a mild-mannered museum employee was upended last year when people turned out in droves to see his humble video reel, and far-flung cultural institutions started clamoring to screen it.
Our heroine quickly discovers, thanks to a branded pen, that her seemingly mild-mannered museum curator dad is actually head of the sinister B-613, the very same shadowy organization responsible for turning sweet family man Huck into a twitchy killing machine.
Given its museums, mild summers and student-filled cafes, Guanajuato practically enforces relaxation without permitting boredom.
It is telling that "Afternoon Men" (1931), which relates the story of a mild-mannered junior museum official's search for love in a rapacious, shallow world, begins and ends with an invitation to a party.
In an e-mail message, Mr. Atkinson responded, "I would retire there!" The reasons, he said, include mild weather, golf courses, museums, art and music programs and inexpensive restaurants.
One museum guard put up a mild protest, only to let them carry on.
BADEN-BADEN, Germany — A decade ago, during a speech in Vienna, the mild-mannered director of a German art museum lit into the Guggenheim for carpetbagging, siphoning money from European companies like Deutsche Bank.
He expresses mild, passing regret ("the smaller and obscurer the town the more I like the museum"), before turning to the serious business of loafing.
"Mild winters, wet springs, hot humid summers: it's a perfect environment for beetles". The museum is based at a house dating from 1534 that was originally the farmhouse home of a tax collector.
(De Montebello was to museum directorship what Dick Clark was to New Year's Eve. Even four years on, the mild former tapestries curator Campbell can suggest a local weather girl filling in).
