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...details are starkly modern: exposed heating ducts, a huge, free-standing circular stairway. Yet the effect, thanks to Kahn's classical symmetry, is of a stately, updated manor house. As President Brewster observes, "It's rather remarkable that such a building could give you such a low-key, domesticated feeling...
...low-key, noncombative way," answers the President. A little later, Carter recalls that the musicians' union is picketing Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Washington, to which he had planned to take Amy that night. The President says to Powell: "I'm going to tell the labor leaders how unhappy I am that they are keeping me from taking my daughter to the circus...
...sport: the ferocious, nonstop struggle for power and prestige between their Premier and their Defense Minister. For the past three years virtually every Israeli domestic, foreign and military policy issue has engaged the two contestants in loud public attacks and counterattacks, which occasionally subside into sotto voce snarling and low-key muttering...
Locally, the 1369 Jazz Club is featuring Interface and Animation through the weekend. The 1369 is what the Jazz Workshop should be. It is low-key, as is everything else in Inman Square, homey, and cheap. A fifteen minute walk on a nice...
...living standards), reports and endless position papers from his staff. The first thing he did when he moved in was to recruit a dozen eager, freewheeling young people, who are unintimidated by their awesome job or their boss, whom they call simply Jim. Schlesinger hired them in his typically low-key way. Often it was just a telephone call: "How quickly can you get over here?" George Hall made it so quickly that he has not yet had time to turn in his ID card and parking permit at the Pentagon, where he was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense...