Word: understatedness
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Thornton's seriousness comes through best in his work, including the three movies he's starring in this season: in Bandits, which opened last month, he plays a Woody Allenish neurotic bank robber; in the Coen brothers' retro film noir The Man Who Wasn't There, he's a poignantly...
While the British market may tolerate pop acts that strip acoustic rock of its angst, leaving it a quiet affirmation of joy, it seems that for Americans, without the wow factor of pop stars like Britney Spears and ’NSync, this music may be too understated for mass...
Pitkin stops to talk with friends as they come to vote, but he only says a brief “hello” to most of the strangers who walk by. His style on the street is understated to say the least.
Vietnam creates blacker, deeper realities for the individuals. Sissy, in quite possibly the play’s most powerful moment, treats a patient to whom she had previously given a picture of herself for support. Now dying, with his arms and legs grotesquely blown off, he returns the picture to...
Vega’s new album, Songs in Red and Gray, misses none of her strengths: Her quietly powerful voice, which avoids Alanis histrionics, remains understated but direct: “Soap and water / Wash the year from my life / Straighten all that we trampled and tore / Heal the cut...