Word: neutralized
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...WOMAN YOU PLAY IN YOUR NEW MOVIE. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HER? Well, she's a fixer. If something goes wrong in the upper circles, she comes in and cleans up the mess or negotiates between parties. And that means that she's not judgmental. She's kind of neutral, a sort of Switzerland. And in my book that's what makes...
...suspects him of secretly playing for the other team. "They see everything very much in a zero-sum way," Khalilzad says. That he is of mixed parentage--his late father was a Sunni, his late mother a Shi'ite--doesn't automatically make him a neutral in the eyes of Iraqi politicians. As a representative of the country that smashed the Sunnis' stranglehold on power, he worked hard to overcome their suspicion, only to find himself in the doghouse with the Shi'ites."He wants to be the hero," says Hamoodi. "He paid more attention to Sunni demands than...
...call it neutral with a pop?a pretty neutral room with a bright orange chair," says Wendy Wurtzburger, merchandising manager for Anthropologie, who has noticed a yearning for standout embellishment among the company's mostly female constituents. "We're finding that people come to us for something unique, artistic or distinctive," she says. Haute femme's influence can be traced to radically different stores. New York City's John Derian does a roaring trade in delicate decoupage (a Marie Antoinette favorite), while even mainstream retailers like the Bombay Co. offer affordable mirrored chests that would not look out of place...
...Christian Lacroix's Hôtel du Petit Moulin in Paris, with suites decked out in couture illustrations and a wild mélange of texture and color. What all these disparate projects have in common is an aversion to the white-box mentality. "I like white, and you need neutral things," says Wearstler, "but to have a room all in white?I would go crazy...
...hope this doesn’t force the next [leader] to be overly cautious.”“Many in the Jewish community have achieved high levels of leadership positions, and I’m afraid they will bend over backwards to appear to be neutral,” says Zarchi. “President Summers [showed] such courage in addressing the divestment issue without being insecure of speaking out publicly as someone who happens to be Jewish. I’m afraid [Jewish leaders] will look at the consequences of defending Israel and the Jewish community...