Word: low-key
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...Many students choose to come to Brown because it's a different kind of campus--because of our low-key approach. That's not to say that we don't envy the Harvard system," he adds...
...skeptical about the mating game. If Pleshette Mary Tyler Moore developed a split personality, her two halves could be spun off as Kate and Allie. Played in wound-up preppie style by Curtin, Allie is the kind of roommate who makes meatloaf while wearing 5 pearls. Kate, a low-key tomboy, tries to unstarch Allie by taking her camping: "Come on, I'll teach you to make a fire by rubbing two credit cards to gether." Both women are ruthlessly verbal and seem actually to have read books. Although there is nothing overtly urban about the show, the clipped...
...President was buffeted by the winds of opinion and tugged by the advice of those who doubted the wisdom of a decisive policy based on the strategic considerations I have outlined. One camp favored a low-key treatment of El Salvador as a local problem and sought to cure it through limited military and economic aid, along with certain covert measures. In that camp were Vice President Bush, Defense Secretary Weinberger, Director of Central Intelligence Casey (with reservations), National Security Adviser Allen and most of the others. Together with Baker and Deaver, Meese was the leading voice for caution...
...most of Shultz's first year in office, he seemed low-key to the point of passivity. "He refused to inject himself," says an Administration colleague. "He waited and waited until he had to be pushed in." Once pushed, however, Shultz went in head over heels, particularly on the Middle East. He spent two weeks last spring in the region, mediating between Israel and Lebanon. Suddenly his stake in the success of the U.S. policy became a matter of personal pride...
...removed that they had, intentionally set up the last one. Hence, as there are no volunteers for new informers the brigade decides to find its own candilates. They decide on Dede Laffont. Who had once worked for Roger Massina, the leader of the Belleville gang. Dede is a low-key villain who resembles a civil servant more closely than a thugbut had had to leave the gang because of a jealousy over Nicole (Nathalie Baye), a prostitute with whom he was-and is-madly in love. Paluzzi and company decide to somehow, get enough information out of Dede and Nicole...