Word: low-key
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...Low-key and brimming with aw-shucks charm, Paulson had been moderately wealthy for several years before his half-billion-dollar windfall. Now he complains that "going public was probably the worst thing that happened to me. My private life became my public life. It's like living in a fishbowl." Paulson is building a 10,000-sq.-ft. replica of an antebellum mansion near Savannah that has 2,000 sq. ft. of porches, two man-made lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a tennis court, a boat dock and a landing pad for his five-passenger Bell JetRanger...
Last week, amid great expectations, Michaels returned. Not to the low-key late-night schedule, but to the hour of reckoning: prime time. And not for a loose-limbed 90 minutes but for a stricter 60. The question that hovered over the whole endeavor: What could he do for an encore without cannibalizing his own success...
Under the ownership of the Hobby family since 1930, the Post had enjoyed a reputation for balanced and, by low-key Houston standards, diligent local coverage; it won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1965. Yet despite the bi-partisan political involvement of family members-including the paper's late chairman, William Hobby, who was Democratic Governor of Texas from 1917 to 1921, and his widow and successor Oveta Gulp Hobby, who was, under President Eisenhower, the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare-the paper rarely crusaded. For four days after the New York Times published...
...begun to deal directly with school systems, with new and old teachers, and with children. Last year, for example, the school inaugurated a "principal center", where public school headmasters can come and discuss different ways of improving their schools. Headed by Ed School professors, the center has provided a low-key forum for these school leaders to develop new plans in their spare time...
...moral and even aesthetic problems that can be encountered in the laboratory. The bestselling essays in The Lives of a Cell and The Medusa and the Snail moved nimbly from the microscopic to the transcendental. Nucleoli revealed worlds of meaning; peptides hid oceans of being. Charmed by Thomas' low-key lyricism, the judges of the National Book Award granted the physician-researcher its prize for arts and letters in 1975. Somehow the doctor had put his pulse on the thumb of the nation...