Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twelve months ago from the self-styled vicar of foreign policy, Alexander Haig, whose petty turf struggles and emotional pronouncements, as well as battles over substantive policy, kept the State Department at the forefront of power but alienated other officials and finally the President. Shultz was hailed as a calm and soothing replacement, a man to whom power flows naturally. Last September he engineered what then seemed the sound plan of trying to bring Jordan into negotiations over the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Soon afterward, he succeeded in quietly reversing the Administration's impetuous embargo on parts...
...fresh before dawn and is gone by 9 a.m. He will breakfast on fatty raw tuna belly, live tiger shrimp, abalone rectums and, if he is lucky, the sperm of red snapper. Such things are not grotesque but delicious; the neophyte must approach them in a spirit of hedonistic calm, interspersing them with commoner raw morsels such as lean tuna or squid...
...water in the desert. Skill accounts for much of Japan's commercial success. But shibusa (the adjective is shibui), an untranslatable part of the Japanese mystique, gives Japanese designers an edge over their U.S., Italian and Scandinavian colleagues. It means not just beauty, but the beauty of calm understatement; not just perfection, but perfection emphasized by some slight flaw. It means both flair and simplicity. Yasumo Kuroko, Sony's chief product designer, offers a definition: "It's the just so of the swerve of a pagoda or the sword of a samurai...
Particularly effective sequences include the morning before the wedding sequence in which Meg Leake as the panicking Amy does a magnificent job of spewing out the quickly paced lyrics without jumbling them up. Her frazzled acting seems extremely comic beside her calm understanding lover with whom she has lived for the past seven years. The rest of the ensemble clad in black choir robes and singing steady choral refrains rounds off an exquisite number...
...less job security and fewer benefits under another employer. "I came to Harvard for security, not for the big backs they're offering," one man, who indicated that he had worked for B&G for 19 years, said Wednesday. The new contract, agreed to after several months of generally calm negotiations, calls for an eight percent pay increase for all workers...