Word: curtness
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...aiming for minimalism, a severe understatement that admirably suits the grim plot. The characters wear black and wander around their comfortable living room (Quincy's unadorned common room) with the same aimless ferocity that characterizes their power games. Hedda (Julie Cohen), newly married to the buffoonish George Tesman (Curt Raffi), is bitter and trapped, seeking to find artistic fulfillment by manipulating the men around her. In the few days that follow her return with Tesman from their honeymoon, Hedda gradually becomes twisted in her own plots, trapped by the circumstances that once made her powerful. The sickening build from complication...
...Curt Hayden...
...began on Sunday night at the U.S. embassy residence in Managua. A reception had been going on for hours, but when he knocked on the door at 10:30 p.m., Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto was not arriving fashionably late for a nightcap. He handed the Americans a curt note declaring that there were three spies on the embassy staff-Political Affairs Counselor Linda Pfeifel, First Secretary David Greig and Second Secretary Ermila Rodriguez-and they were hereby persona non grata. The trio, D'Escoto said, were to leave Nicaragua within 24 hours...
...struggles for racial justice, has been the most important U.S. civil rights organization. Yet the group has been adrift for almost a decade, and its membership has been halved to fewer than 200,000. Now open mutiny seems to have broken out at the top. With a curt letter sent last week, Margaret Bush Wilson, chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. board of directors, summarily suspended Executive Director Benjamin Hooks...
...commission's report was published as relations between the U.S. and Israel sank to one of their lowest points in a quarter-century.* From the President's anger over the siege of Beirut last summer to Begin's curt rejection of Reagan's peace plan to the stalemate over the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, everything has seemed to conspire to heighten tensions and deepen distrust. Perhaps the simplest and most basic example: the more President Reagan expressed his disapproval of new settlements in the West Bank, the faster the Israelis built them. Says a senior Administration...