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Jaffe's emphasis on theme and structure led him to cast Nelligan and Hirsen rather than actors with more star appeal. Both excel in their roles: Nelligan, especially, works with such intelligence that she seems constrained by Jaffe's low-key interpretation. The tautness of her motions often reveals the depth of her characterization. When she visits her husband in the hospital, after he is beat up in the course of the investigation, her otherwise highly poised muscles relax as she tells him a terrible joke. That one moment evokes the despurate need for affection behind their irreparable estrangement. Susan...
Andropov's foreign debut may have seemed devoid of drama, but his low-key performance merited close attention. Said a French Sovietologist: "Basically, there is nothing "new, but there is a much more skillful use of language, adapted to the different audiences to which it is addressed." Long accustomed to monotone and heavyhanded Kremlin pronouncements, Western leaders are fast learning that in the future they will have to evaluate messages from Moscow with increasing sophistication...
Shultz's low-key, solicitous style won him the respect of officials in every capital that he visited. Europeans clearly noticed that, unlike many other Administration officials, Shultz seemed to appreciate the importance of reducing conflicts among alliance members. Said a French diplomat: "There is a great deal of appreciation for Shultz here. He is a very serious man, one who takes time to think things out, and who pays attention when people talk to him." As the Atlantic Alliance enters a year in which its cohesiveness may be tested as never before, those qualities will prove indispensable...
When U.S. Presidents go abroad, they usually make a splash by announcing bilateral agreements, making blustery speeches or starring in extravagant ceremonial tableaux. By contrast, Ronald Reagan's five-day trip through volatile Latin America last week was low-key. In Brazil, where Reagan spent half his time, there was no black-tie banquet, but an outdoor barbecue lunch. In Colombia, Reagan's limousine ride to the presidential palace was a few blocks, hardly a motorcade at all. On Saturday in Honduras, Reagan's final, fleeting stop, he only visited the air force base in San Pedro...
Despite the constant but relatively low-key fighting that marked the 1960s, Salem says his feeling of "violence coming home, coming close" began to grow in the early 1970s when the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), evicted from Jordan in 1971, began building a base in Lebanon. The Lebanese government at that time was "delicately balanced" to satisfy relations between the five major religions in the country--the two Moslem minorities, (Shiites and Sunnites), Christian Marinates, Christian Greek Orthodox, and Druses. The entrance of Palestinian forces "tipped the balance of the Lebanese political system," but, Salem adds, that was only...