Word: curtness
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...tone-deaf suit or a chivalrous protector of the integrity of America's favorite pastime? Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1969 to 1984, tangled aggressively with high-profile players like Hank Aaron and Jim Bouton and owners like George Steinbrenner, and chafed in 1969 when Curt Flood unsuccessfully sued the league to become a free agent. (In 1977 arbitrators ruled in favor of free agency.) But Kuhn launched the playoffs, ruled that female reporters should have equal access to the locker room, inked a deal with NBC to air night games of the World Series...
...room was an evocative setting for the Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s new production of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,†directed by Curt L. Tofteland and produced by Sara Stackhouse. Though there were scenes of great humor, emotional depth, and rapturous melodicism—it is Shakespeare, after all—the cast (occasionally) and the production team (almost always) were generally not up to the script they had to work with...
...buries his head between his knees; and Suzy, interviewed on the lawn of her father's 4,000-acre estate in Scotland, is so uncommunicative that the camera moves away from her to see her pet retriever fetch a dead rabbit. Even Tony, who usually loves the limelight, sounds curt and ungiving...
...face. Those around eventually pulled the animal off, though it still seemed to be chewing something gelatinous while the professor, writhing on the floor, held his hands to his bloodied face. Looking up, I saw the teaching fellow smile. Her purse looked empty. As she rose she called a curt command: “Snow!†The terrier dropped the eyeball and scurried to the exit as the teaching fellow, too, left the hall. The first snow fall of the year had proved disastrous for Professor...
...jargon and generals on the Pentagon's E-Ring easily enough. But he will be judged by only one rule: whether he can organize what a Baker aide calls "the orderly transition and exit from Iraq." Someone who has worked with him describes Gates as "serious, subtle, reflective, never curt or abrupt." Departing CIA directors are flooded with offers of corporate jobs and strategic intelligence posts. Instead, when Gates left government in early 1993, he fled to Washington State, where he spent the next few years in a library working on his memoirs...