Word: discreeter
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...purgatory" because "you seldom see anything-either too many people or too many press." With her husband Mark Phillips, she enjoyed visiting the U.S. in 1975, "but always in someone's private house or garden. They [the Americans] were very generous -or, to use an old-fashioned word, discreet." However, what she dislikes most, says Britain's reining princess, is being watched "when I'm having the most awful row with my horse...
...Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie at 4:35 and 8:20; Phantom of Liberty...
Luis Bunuel was once a great director, but you'd never know it to see The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, his first film to draw a mass audience. With the help of a minimal and episodic plot, Bunuel steers a group of severely dignified French coke-smugglers-cum-diplomats through a series of incongruous situations, most of which end up with them walking down a long country road to nowhere. The guiding theme seems to be none too funny comedy masquerading under the claim "isn't this surrealistic." Bunuel's new surrealism has none of the acid critical touch...
...film is Bunuel's use of music: Handel's Messiah during the beggars' feast and then Chuck Berry when all hell breaks loose at the end. One of his very best films, much more original than his senile and commercial successes of recent years, such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...
...perhaps because success had come so easily, Vidal soon grew "bored with playing it safe." In 1948 he published The City and the Pillar, a sympathetic story of homosexuality. The novel's subdued, discreet portrait of physical love between males was shocking for its time. The sensation it caused made The City and the Pillar a bestseller. It also may have harmed the author. The New York Times refused to run advertisements for the book. Many critics were angered and decided that Vidal had betrayed their earlier praise. During the next six years, his star declined. He published five...