Word: minimalist
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...basically did nothing but stand at a microphone and tell jokes. He was a wiseguy, a smart aleck, a comic minimalist in pursuit of the perfect gag, which, through a process of trial and error and full of genially sneering asides at the eggs he laid along the way, he often found...
...time of minimalist drama, where two or four characters try to occupy a bare stage, it's a joy to set the set filled so profligately with people - 14 in the official cast, plus a few surprises. Each role is attractively embodied, and at the end, when the mystery woman materializes, she (lovely, grave Alice Selwyn) has the star quality the part demands. You'll just have to take my word...
...most extravagant entrepreneurial venture. Capitalizing on Javanese resources and skills, the company offers some 28,000 products ranging from bamboo boxes to picture frames made from hand-rolled newsprint to furniture molded from tawny water hyacinth. "The world is looking for interesting materials presented in a sophisticated, minimalist style," he says. Evidently so: Out of Asia goods are carried in ?lite stores and mass-market chains in Europe and the U.S., among them Macy's and Harrods. Although precise revenue figures from the private firm are unavailable, he's currently expanding with a new venture called Warwick Purser Lifestyle, selling...
...gloriously oversized windows of the Common was quintessential ye olde world Boston. The temporal/spatial confusions only continued: once languidly positioned on a brocade chaise lounge like characters out of E.M. Forster, we were presented not with the expected cup of tea, but rather with chic green apple martinis and minimalist Japanese delicacies served on a South African styled wrought iron centerpiece...
...deemed only four films worthy of prizes?the lowest number in memory. They also went out of their way to reward movies that were moderate in tone (except for Elephant): the winners included a genial comedy-drama about a dying professor (French Canada's The Barbarian Invasions), a minimalist study of two cousins getting on each other's nerves (the Turkish Uzak), and the one Asian awardee, At Five in the Afternoon, set in Afghanistan and directed by 23-year-old Iranian Samira Makhmalbaf...