Word: understatedness
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Dole succeeds in containing the mirth that rises behind his eyes and tugs at the corners of his mouth. He gives an understated smile and not the Kansas yuk that helped sink the Ford-Dole ticket in 1976. He joked so much then that people did not think he was...
"This is the most understated overstated hotel in the world," says Wynn. "It's held back just a touch." Even though it's ridiculous to describe a $2.7 billion, 2,716-room hotel with a man-made lake, massage tables in the suites and Wynn's huge signature on the...
From whence comes this sixth sense for style? Philo doesn't stop to analyze it--or think it's a big deal. "A massive part of it is being a woman who loves clothes and bags and shoes," she says. "I'm quite simplistic and spontaneous. I can't really...
But the greatest horror comes later, in the twinned crises of Suharto's fall and East Timor. In May 1998, Lloyd Parry reports from a burning Jakarta, "a capital city looted by its own people," as a mix of demonstrators and marauders run wild in the streets. The structure of...
The final understated touch is Daniel's singing. Most of the songs appear to be about love, or a lack of it, although his lyrics are pretty vague. ("I'm looking through you/ You know who you are," he offers on My Mathematical Mind.) When something as generic as "I...