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Like Atlantic City. Louis Malle's brilliant expose of dreamers out to make the "big score" in the casino, Lookin' To Get Out takes a low-key, matter-of-fact approach to its subject. Malle used very simple camera angles and clear shots, and never allowed his stars to throw in any histrionics into their understated performances. He had no pretensions about his film, but simply let John Guare's excellent screenplay work itself out before the camera. Ashby, however, can't afford the luxury of sitting back in his director's chair. But the script for Lookin...
...share legal training and, according to Mass Hall colleagues, legal minds. Both are low-key and reflective when making decisions and are careful to prepare for even the least likely eventuality. Like Bok, "he believes in what he says, and there's no need to stand up on a table and shout it," says Dianne Fraser, a Harvard negotiator who works with Steiner. As a result, says Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien: "He's more like the president than the rest...
University labor organizers take a different view of Steiner. They say his low-key demeanor masks his aggressive behind-the-scenes efforts to quash unionization efforts on campus...
...low-key politician from Rhine-land-Palatinate who has spent three decades in Christian Democratic national politics, Kohl is a striking contrast to the hard-driving and brilliant but sometimes arrogant Schmidt. Known in West Germany as the Black Giant, the dark-com plexioned 6-ft. 4-in. jowly Kohl is folksy, gregarious and a devout Roman Catholic. In the Bundestag, Schmidt is always poised and formal. Kohl, on the other hand, has frequently been seen sitting on the opposition benches roaring with laughter, as if parliamentary business were some huge joke. Kohl is fond of saying that "my strength...
Without half its complexity of plot, Diva would be captivating. The photography is stunning, particularly during a climatic sequence in an abandoned warehouse. The acting is low-key and effective. Fredrich Andre plays the handsome Jules with an appealing and desperate innocence. Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez as the diva, gives the insecure prima donna an amusingly American French accent, an appropriate haughtiness of manner, and a crystalline singing voice. Thuy An Luu and Richard Bohringer (as Alba and her boyfriend) are very good at behaving strangely, which appears to be their primary function...