Word: discreeter
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...publicity barrage choreographed last week by George Bush's strategists was designed to portray his Veep-selection process as dignified and judicious. Much to their satisfaction, that is precisely what front-page stories soon reported: discreet phone calls to 20 candidates, quiet background checks by Washington Lawyer Robert Kimmitt, and no public tryouts. "George Bush knows all these people well," said Campaign Manager Lee Atwater. "We don't have to run a political Gong Show." But the process may soon get bumpy; Bush tends to waffle when faced with conflicting advice because, as an aide puts it, "he hates...
This sense of the surface and its continuity led to the decorative grandeur of his later still lifes. Braque loved "slow" surfaces, porous and mortared, the paint mixed with sand or sawdust. They had a solid, discreet material presence. They sucked the paint out of the brush and made fluent, wristy drawing impossible. Instead, all is deliberate plotting. You do not look through the paint but at it. Braque's determination to keep everything on the surface is the first thing that strikes you in the great still lifes and interiors of the 1940s and '50s, and it lends them...
...Japan, where the strong yen has made imported gems a bargain and young couples have developed a newfound fondness for diamond engagement rings. While many diamonds have become more expensive in the U.S., sales still sparkle aplenty. One reason: single professional women are increasingly buying their own gems -- in discreet sizes...
...Peres and Minister Without Portfolio Ezer Weizmann, who voiced strong objections. Now, with al-Wazir's assassination only hours away, eight Cabinet members again endorsed the plan and the same two holdouts renewed their objections. Last week, as doubts continued about the wisdom of the operation, Peres maintained a discreet silence, but Weizmann spoke out against the attack. "It doesn't contribute to the fight against terrorism," he told Israel Radio. "It distances the peace process and will bring greater hostility and makes us more vulnerable around the world...
...possibilities of transcendent meaning for an audience that has forgotten . . . how to believe." Aw, come on. There is nothing "transcendent" about Sultan's work. It is decorative and materialistic. Most of its motifs come from photographs, not direct observation; its style is distanced and gloomily elegant, enlivened by discreet erotic puns between, for instance, lemons and breasts...