Word: understatedness
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Black's problems may be just starting, however. Tweedy, Browne's complaints to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) go much deeper. Black and his wife, columnist Barbara Amiel, and several top executives received other payments now being examined. Black, Amiel and the executives are affiliated with a private firm...
"The Senators watched in curious silence as Madame Chiang walked down the aisle of the Senate Chamber. They saw a still face with big dark eyes. They saw a slim, straight figure in a black Chinese gown, with here a tiny splash of jade, there a black sequin's understated...
DIED. CHARLES BROWN, 82, understated former chairman and CEO of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T), who headed the company during the historic breakup of Ma Bell; in Richmond, Va. Brown, who spent his entire 40-year career at the company, opposed the breakup. But in 1982 he and his...
Such an understated response seems a bizarre reaction from a man who appears to have the captaincy locked up for the next two years and is the leader of a talented, if inexperienced, team.
The novel, which Lethem read passages from during his Cambridge stop, tells the story of Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, a white boy and a black boy living in 1970s Brooklyn. Dylan, whose name comes from his parents’ fascination with the folk-singer, is conscious of race early...