Word: discreeter
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...Washington a discreet but active substratum of the government has developed. It includes the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division, the interagency Counterterrorism Center at the CIA and the Counterterrorism Security Group at the White House. In aggregate, this is the nation's backbone in the fight to combat terrorists. Call them the Terror Hunters...
...Aside from their ice cream expeditions, the FARC guerrillas maintain a discreet profile in San Vicente. Everyone is so scared of them, anyway, that they don't need to bully the townsfolk. Locals whisper that when the guerrillas ask for anything - a cow, free gasoline, a ranch - it's not advisable to refuse. "Up until yesterday, these commanders had spent their lives in the jungle, walking around in mud," says one shopkeeper. "Now they have the best houses, the prettiest girls...
...nameless couple (well played by Nathalie Baye and Sergei Lopez) meet through the sexual want-ads, repair to an anonymous hotel to enact an erotic fantasy we never see and they never talk about, then fall into genuine love. The consequences are wry, wistful, impermanent. But this wee, discreet little movie has a certain rueful intelligence about the ways we rather carelessly talk ourselves into love--and out of it as well...
...apron; a blue feather picks up the blue of her ribbon; a pink feather, the color of her cheek. It is as perfectly made as any sonnet. It makes you realize what rewards can flow from Chardin's desire to link the appearance of spontaneous feeling with the discreet display of its opposite, a technical perfection whose integrity rises from knowing its own limits. "All through his life," writes curator Pierre Rosenberg in the catalog, "Chardin battled to overcome his lack of natural talent." He is still an irrefutable proof that it isn't only virtuosos who change art history...
...including a nice item about Al Gore's ongoing cries for attention, the latest example being his decision to set Aug. 8 as his running-mate date. Irony, anyone? "Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane said the Democratic presidential candidate was determined to conduct the process 'in a businesslike and discreet fashion.' Still, the disclosure of the date was an attempt by the Gore campaign to build some suspense for Gore's choice as the GOP prepares to seize the spotlight with its national convention...