Word: restraint
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Though he never throws restraint entirely to the winds, I would guess that Haitink perspires quite a bit in the last movement, ending with a satisfying rendition of the tiered descending scales and "stuck car-horn" trombone soli...
...fact, relief officials counter, the Tutsi victors showed great restraint in their conduct of the four-year civil war and their prescriptions for peace. "The one remarkable thing that we've seen is enormous discipline by the R.P.F. and the Tutsi who have stayed inside Rwanda," says Peter McDermott, senior emergency officer at UNICEF. In a gesture of reconciliation last week, the R.P.F. named moderate Hutu as President and Prime Minister, though the real power seems to be in the hands of R.P.F. General, and now Vice President, % Paul Kagame, who masterminded the military victory. More than half the government...
...course, De Bont makes up for the restraint in one area with an excess in another. This is a damm destructive movie. Things crash, blow up and burn at tan amazing rate--planes, (subway) trains, automobiles...
...needed a stiff drink after the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's presentation of Harold Pinter's play, "The Dumb Waiter." With remarkable restraint, Aaron Zelman and Mark Fish (the two characters Gus and Ben, respectively) pulled off what easily could have been a flat, boring piece of comedy. Under the direction of Chris Scully, they brought subtlety and nuance to the characters, fleshing out the obscure, ambiguous script to produce suspense and intensity...
Late last year, Mike D of the white rap trio Beastie Boys published a review of the rock band Soul Asylum that displayed about as much restraint as Jack Nicholson shows to motorists who cut him off in traffic. "White music by white people for white people," Mike D mockingly wrote about the band. "This is why most white people suck...