Word: discreeter
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...movie is black and blasphemous in Bunuel's manner. It is not so piquant as his recent The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but it is full of effusive invention and flourishes of high humor that do not seem to tax the 74-year-old director in the least...
...efforts at surrogate motherhood. Elsa, the Adamsons' lioness, has turned into a kind of feline Lassie, roaming the remoter reaches of the green hills of Kenya, where she can weekly rescue or be rescued by the guest stars. As the Adamsons, Diana Muldaur and Gary Collins provide the discreet exposition linking Elsa's exploits together. Muldaur is also required to voice-over a narration that weekly spells out whatever moral Elsa's behavior has pointed up. On these occasions, one cannot help wishing that Mr. Ed, TV's departed talking horse, could somehow have been worked...
...ideological commands that they stick to the rigid canons of socialist realism, and have flirted with such decadent Western forms as abstract expressionism and even pop art. Works in these styles obviously cannot be sold openly in Russia, but there is a well-established private market for them among discreet collectors, including many senior officials in the Foreign Ministry, scientific institutes and universities. Many of the painters would like to make that market public. Last week 20 Moscow artists tried to bring abstract art out of the ideological closet by mounting an open-air exhibit in Moscow's Smenovskoye...
...hands since he was shuffled out of the Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
...save money, there is a renewed interest in communal living in dormitories as an alternative to more expensive off-campus apartments. Quite a few colleges have abolished most dormitory rules. At Berkeley, says Ben Leifer, 21, a graduate student in public health, "there are virtually no regulations except be discreet, mind your own business and don't bother anyone." Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., permits students in dormitory suites to choose their own roommates-of whatever...