Word: discreeter
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...simply exposes the foibles, ironies, and hypocrisy of this breed of American The first act sticks much more closely to this loose structure than the second act. This latter part of the play becomes very confusing as it ignores timelines and allows class struggle to poke its nose, however discreet and upturned, out. Fortunately the second act is very short and we only see the left nostril...
...award was once worth caring about. Since 1947, when the Italian film Shoeshine was the first foreign-language film to receive an Oscar, the category has honored both landmark art (The Bicycle Thief, Rashomon, Through a Glass Darkly, 8 1/2) and sophisticated diversion (Seven Samurai, Z, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Day for Night). The Academy might err on the side of aesthetic conservatism; trailblazers such as Godard, Antonioni and Fassbinder were never so much as finalists for the prize, and directors like Bergman and Truffaut were cited years after their films had won critical acceptance. But in general...
...West European antimissile movement, which the Soviets have fervently encouraged, staged small, mostly discreet demonstrations across the street from the Soviet mission; a handful of Americans joined them. Dissent was far more evident in Belgium, which has been debating whether to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. To ensure that the basing plan went ahead, Kampelman, Tower and Glitman lobbied Prime Minister Wilfried Martens during a day trip to Brussels on Monday. On Friday, Martens announced Belgium would proceed because an accord on limiting INF missiles would be "impossible in the short term"; hours later, the first cruises arrived in the country...
...barrage of media scrutiny would have been unthinkable for those two discreet representatives of Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Smiley and James Bond. The formerly anonymous head of Britain's MI5 counterintelligence agency, Sir John Jones, 62, was doubtless shocked to find his picture, partly blotted out by government edict, in London's Sunday Times. A few days later, a national television audience got an unprecedented look at MI5's internal operations in a controversial documentary. In short, last week the lid was blown off Britain's venerable intelligence establishment. The reason, according to Liberal Party Leader David Steel...
...strength as a performer, if not as a presence, seems sapped. The music in each line of dialogue has become a jingle, a sentiment not so much spoken as marketed; then comes a pause for laughter or applause or just mute admiration. In the show's wonderfully discreet mating ritual, Shall We Dance?, his new Anna (Mary Beth Peil) looks nearly to be carrying Brynner around the stage. They are working gamely to erase (or is it only to evoke?) the memory of some beloved ghosts: Gertrude Lawrence and Deborah Kerr as Anna, and the vital, young Yul Brynner. Long...