Word: restraint
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...Futterman should also be praised for playing Charlie with a restraint and depth that are rare in most films. Though his character is gay, Futterman refuses to portray him as anything but a suffering human. In doing so, Futterman allows Charlie to become someone we can all identify with, further adding to the impact Urbania will have on its audiences...
...fact that many popular tax breaks now scheduled to expire will almost certainly be renewed. The projections also assume that discretionary spending, such as the defense and education budgets, will grow no faster than inflation. Judging from recent history, Congress is unlikely to show that kind of restraint. "At best, we have a small surplus, nothing like the numbers that are being talked about," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In other words, Bush and Gore are arguing about how to spend $2 trillion that may not exist...
...peace and prosperity we enjoy, Clinton is likely to be remembered as a fine President, victimized by our cultural obsession with celebrity scandal while being its ideal representative. He's the mirror of our times, the quintessential baby-boomer American--lofty ideals, a generous heart but no self-restraint. History could very well love him. HELEN STUTCHBURY San Diego...
...origins of the Gores' kiss may be traced to that moment in the Sixties when the last rules of puritanical date restraint between boys and girls - at Gore's Harvard, they called them parietals - were abandoned under pressure of the baby boomers' importunate hormones (the hormones shrewdly mixed themselves up in anti-war politics, which made "sexual liberation" a cinch). The convention kiss is proof not only of an endearing and enduring connubial passion between the middle-aged high school sweethearts Al and Tipper, but also of the residual baby boom refusal to grow up and behave like adults. Grownups...
...fact that many popular tax breaks now scheduled to expire will almost certainly be renewed. The projections also assume that discretionary spending, such as the defense and education budgets, will grow no faster than inflation. Judging from recent history, Congress is unlikely to show that kind of restraint. "At best, we have a small surplus, nothing like the numbers that are being talked about," says Henry Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. In other words, Bush and Gore are arguing about how to spend $2 trillion that may not exist...