Word: uncertainity
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What A.R. Gurney is for the old money set, Richard Greenberg is for yuppie arrivistes: a rueful chronicler of meaningless manners, misbegotten mores and loves gone wrong. THE EXTRA MAN, off-Broadway, focuses on a figure common to both circles: the unattached man of uncertain sexuality and undeniable charm who is always on hand for friends and in fact lives through them, sometimes in ways meddlesome or even Machiavellian. Boyd Gaines, who won a Tony Award as a saintly gay doctor in The Heidi Chronicles, balances amiability and creepiness in the role. He is ably backed by TV stars Adam...
Just how these financial questions will affect the Design School's academic planning process is uncertain...
...drawn on all the forest-protection of issues that what was originally intended to be a legally binding forestry convention was watered down months ago to a nonbinding "statement of principles" that will probably be adopted at Rio. Whether a full-fledged treaty will be negotiated later is still uncertain...
...letter claiming responsibility for Reso's abduction had been issued by a group called the Rainbow Warriors. The name Rainbow Warrior belongs to a Greenpeace ship destroyed by the French government in 1985. Greenpeace, an international environmental group, vehemently denies any involvement in the Reso incident. Investigators are uncertain that the note is anything other than a prank, and they are remaining tight-lipped on the details of the case...
...astringent sense of % hierarchy, subscribe to a code of stoical reticence and are, in some respects, proud, isolated monarchies with more than a touch of xenophobia. The very qualities that seem so foreign to many Americans -- the fact that people do not invariably mean what they say, that uncertain distances separate politeness from true feelings, and that everything is couched in a kind of code in which nuances are everything -- will hardly seem strange to a certain kind of Englishman...