Word: discreeter
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...comes to real political power, Chubais will probably retain the inside edge. In large part this will be because of his close political relationship with Dyachenko. A near contemporary of Chubais'--she was born in 1960, he in 1955--and like him highly educated, Dyachenko has emerged as a discreet but crucial figure in the presidential power structure. Her enemies--particularly Korzhakov, Yeltsin's former chief bodyguard, and the ousted national security adviser Alexander Lebed--complain loudly that Chubais is manipulating Dyachenko. In a recent interview, Korzhakov claimed that Chubais prepares key documents that Dyachenko then persuades her ailing father...
...slow down the tempo, tease out the vowel sounds even further, add an Ozark twang that you won't hear on Patsy's records. Now an ancient 20, Barnett has her own, self-titled CD (Asylum). It stands as both a votive offering to her idol and a discreet declaration of independence...
Still, there are some things that Wills, as he grows older, can learn from his father's hard experience. One is that he cannot rely on others to be discreet. While Charles was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, the wife of R.A. Butler, a Tory elder statesman and Master of the College, introduced him to Lucia Santa Cruz, the daughter of the Chilean ambassador. When the young pair hit it off, the Butlers boasted that Charles had learned the fine points of physical love from Santa Cruz. Another lesson is that however irresponsible his parents became, they at least...
...employed Quigley during the 1980 campaign and approached her again after the attempt on her husband's life. The relationship lasted seven years but broke off when Quigley could not avoid publicity. Since then she has written a book about her work with the Reagans while maintaining a "discreet" list of faithful clients. Refusing any comment on the current Gurugate, Quigley simply says her aim is to make quality astrology available to the public. "Anyone can call himself an astrologer," she says. "My work is based on mathematics and the rotation of the planets. You make a diagnosis...
...wrong word--it suggests trickery, whereas in Cezanne the relation between the paint surface and the imagined surface of the object (a rock, the side of a house, an apple) is astonishingly direct and candid. This doesn't come across in reproduction. It rises from the paint itself, that discreet paste in which every trace left by the brush seems to help create the impression of solidity, so that you feel you could pick the apple--which is both a rosy sphere of light and a ball as heavy as plutonium--off the table. And yet the surface is never...