Word: discreetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one more question-Do these loving women become lovers?-that Kurys, with a discretion worthy of the '50s, allows the viewer's imagination to answer. Her direction of two terrific actresses is just as discreet and telling...
...caller directed a reporter from the Rome daily Il Messaggero to another garbage can, in Piazza Barberini, where the photograph was found, accompanied by two messages. One, from Anna Calissoni, was addressed to Pope John Paul II. "I pray you," the note read, "to intercede in an unofficial and discreet manner with my family so that they may free us from this torment and allow us to regain our human dignity." In the second message, the kidnapers offered "our reply to the so-called blockage of assets": if their demands were not met, they would "do away" with the hostages...
Last week Hickey was being discreet on what he would recommend to Rome. Said he: "It wasn't easy, you know...
...their country's tradition of rough-and-tumble politics, the election campaign was a strangely sedate affair. Candidates were not allowed to hurl accusations at each other or criticize the regime. Political wall posters and graffiti were banned, and party members could display their loyalties only with discreet lapel pins. Virtually all politicians who had held elected office prior to the 1980 coup, including former Prime Ministers Bülent Ecevit and Siileyman Demirel, were forbidden to run. More than 500 of the candidates for seats in parliament were stricken from the ballot without explanation...
...writing a book about the Russian-born impressionist. Being an amateur shutterbug, Wyman expressed an interest in taking the photographs for Verdet's volume, which will be published in France next month. The writer arranged a meeting by explaining to Chagall that the veteran rocker was discreet and modest, "not like the other members of the Rolling Stones band." Chagall and Wyman clicked, and the pair eventually settled on 20 black-and-white and color shots that gave them satisfaction. "Chagall liked him very much," says Verdet. "Normally he doesn't like to be photographed...