Word: lippedness
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The tight-lipped and occasionally melancholic Finns insist that their acquiescence to the Soviets is widely misunderstood abroad. "We are a fiercely independent people," says Matti Khova, managing director of a private Finnish economic research group. "You cannot hurt a Finn more than by saying he is dependent on the...
Plummer could overpower a strong Moor, but James Earl Jones is the most oddly recessive Othello imaginable, laurence Olivier once complained while rehearsing his own exhasting Othello that the part was all climaxes. Jones sadly pretends they don't exist, as if rising to one would obligate him to go...
Beyond the immediate fallout from the attack on Israeli-U.S. relations, the Administration was concerned about the consequent heightening of tensions throughout the Middle East. The Israeli strike immensely complicated, and may have destroyed, any hope that Philip Habib, Reagan's special Middle East envoy, could find a...
Sometimes, it's hard to see what all the fuss is about: yet every year University officials remain tight-lipped, at times even touchy about the process of choosing honoraries and a speaker (Bok said he was "uncomfortable" discussing the subject, and would not go into details), the topic permeates...
As he went about his duties, the Lebanese American, whose patient, stubborn diplomacy appeared to be the last best hope for peace in the area, was as tight-lipped as ever about his mission. "I know you guys have to make a living too," he told reporters, "but this is...