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...deterred by it. Nineteen months later, Obama, now a worldwide celebrity and the presumptive Democratic nominee, is heading to his native Hawaii for a weeklong vacation, with dozens of reporters in tow shadowing his every move from getting a haircut to biking with his daughters. No matter how low-key his intentions, there's little chance of the trip not looking like victorious Caesar returning from the front: not only did Obama win the Aloha State's primary and the Democratic nomination, he is arguably already the best-known Hawaiian native ever...
...threatened urban landmarks (a very topical preoccupation). "The movie is a way to gently vent my protest," To says. Among other directors, Sylvia Chang's accomplished triad-cum-family drama Run Papa Run, released in April, covers decades of Hong Kong's social transformation, while Ann Hui's low-key new release The Way We Are offers a compelling grass-roots community portrait...
...glossy collection of covers and old standards that showed a heartfelt respect for tradition but lacked the offbeat charm of her own material. On Traffic from Paradise, Jones gets personal again, delivering a set of original songs that evoke a familiar gallery of saintly sinners and handsome devils. Low-key and instrumentally sparse, the album has a hushed sound that highlights Jones' elastic vocals and free-wheeling lyrics, which never flinch from unpleasant truths. The meditative tone is set on Pink Flamingos, which describes the denizens of a bar in terms that suggest a watering hole in the African veldt...
...high-profile campaign complete with apocalyptic speeches warning of a Communist takeover of the Americas and a televised appeal to the nation. In the end, the House voted against him. This time around, as Reagan takes another crack at winning approval for his package, he has adopted a more low-key approach, tending to rally support behind closed doors. Yet already the public charges, by both friends and foes of the anti-Sandinista rebels, are beginning to fly. Instead of speechmaking about Marxists marching across the Texas border, CIA Director William Casey told members of Congress last week...
...show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef, says she's likewise wary of intentionally abstruse menu language. "I find that the more intricate a menu description is, the more disappointing a dish usually is," says Burrell, Mario Batali's longtime sous chef on Iron Chef America. Burrell takes the same low-key approach to typography and design. At Centro Vinoteca, the New York City restaurant where she is executive chef, Burrell uses all lowercase letters in a basic Garamond font. "I prefer to underpromise and overdeliver...