Word: discreeter
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...gains from the increased opportunity to advertise, most attorneys continue to regard the practice as distasteful and undignified. An A.B.A. Journal study found that in 1984 only 13% of the attorneys surveyed placed ads of any kind; in 1979 the figure was 7%. Ads range in tone from the discreet, almost public-service messages on a Philadelphia classical-music station by Rawle & Henderson, the nation's oldest firm, to the outrageous grabbers of Ken Hur of Madison, Wis., the acknowledged "clown prince of adtorneys." The 300-lb. Hur's most famous TV commercial features him in | bejeweled scuba gear climbing...
...carefully calculated to meet each client's taste. "That dress is no good, you can't have it," the saleswoman commands, in the bantering tone habitual to women whose living is made by treating other women like rich babies. The department keeps clientele books, with histories of purchases and discreet information on husband's job, working habits, traveling time, ages of children and weekend homes. Thank-you notes are sent, inquiries made about "your darlin' son Marc...
...film's tone and style are similarly discreet. 1918 alludes rather than displays; at times it just sits there like a good deed. Occasionally, it will burst into dramatic feeling, as in Horace's bout of delirium, a wonderfully judged piece of writing and acting. But then characters will lose their edges in the diffused light that seeps through the windows like radiation and gives the picture its instant-nostalgia look. Important lines of dialogue will be muffled by heavy footsteps or a piano's plaint. The crucial event of the Robedaux family occurs offscreen, in a narrative caesura between...
...chief of the order of battle branch responsible for putting together enemy strength figures, one called what the general had done "improper," the other called what he was asked to do by MACA command "dishonest," it seems to me that these two men who had specific and discreet knowledge of the charges leveled in the documentary, and each of them appeared is witnesses for us, it would seem to indicate that the basis of our story was accurate...
...beast; the good die young). Anna Hamilton Phelan's script neither sidesteps nor wallows in these homilies; it is notable mostly for the bathetic excesses it avoids. So is Peter Bogdanovich's directorial touch. Bogdanovich may be the last and finest avatar of the classic Hollywood style; discreet tracking shots, invisible editing, no camerabatics, no teary close- ups for emotional blackmail. Nobody is trying to make a masterpiece here. Mask has a sturdy, disposable feel to it, like the tissues moviegoers are advised to bring with them when they...