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...must also recognize that the Sandinistas are not going to fade away. They remain the largest and best-organized political party in the country, and some still see them as social reformers. Bush's habitual low-key reaction to stunning change was welcome last week, in contrast to years of shrill U.S. rhetoric. Administration officials were publicly gracious to outgoing President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, careful to praise his commitment to fair elections and his apparent reasonableness -- so far -- in defeat...
...music--steady, low-key with few surprises--fits the candidate and his campaign smartly. Pierce, now considered the frontrunner in the Republican race for the corner office, has built his campaign slowly but steadily, making use of broad grassroots support and contacts deep within the GOP. He has successfully created a solid conservative image which should appeal to the party's middle-class wing...
Like one of those ominously quiet sequences in a Hitchcock film, Beattie's low-key style tends to create the tension of expectation. For example: "Corky pushed the door open and turned and looked at Wayne, sitting on the step, holding a Schlitz. It was the last drink he would have before his life changed." But all that happens is that Wayne gets arrested on a false charge of possessing cocaine. We never do find out what became of him except, in an epilogue, that he is now living in Mexico City...
...that measure, the main value of Malta was in fulfilling Bush's stated goal: making a personal connection with Gorbachev. To Bush's relief, Gorbachev played a low-key role, thanking the President for his "prudent and cautious" rhetoric. The two leaders engaged in lengthy chats about "Western values," an expression Bush uses to describe the changes sweeping Eastern Europe. In one 30-minute segment, Gorbachev asked Bush to drop the phrase from speeches, because it implied the changes were a victory for the West. Accordingly, the President has started speaking of "democratic values...
...most enduring lesson of his old postmodern nemeses: the necessity of fitting in with nearby buildings, even the motley, uninspiring ones. Wexner, tucked between off-white masonry buildings, is clad partly in white limestone, and for all its coming- apart-at-the-seams wildness, the building is actually rather low-key, never overwhelming its campus. "We're on the short list for a new building at Yale," says Eisenman, the contextualist-come-lately. The location, he says nonchalantly, as if he had not spent the past 20 years ranting against any hint of historical style, "seems to call...