Word: understatedness
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The Roaring Twenties satin and fringe are a dazzling but understated use of the $30,000 costume budget. The best duds of the night came in Act II, when the speakeasy clientele and the cops don camoflauge outfits and wellplaced grenades. In the night's fashion coup extraordinaire, Agent Tess...
% The dancing opens with a traditional tap challenge, each man showing his best stuff in turn. Savion Glover, 15, who enacted The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway in 1983, is predictably upstaged by such snowy-haired hoofers as Bunny Briggs, Lon Chaney and Ralph Brown. Glover reappears in a breakneck...
This woman is inevitably a figure of fun. In Arvin Brown's perfect production at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, her blindness becomes a tragic symbol of the willful ignorance of a nation. Tony winner Elizabeth Wilson (Sticks and Bones) is supremely tough-minded and understated. So is the...
At gymnastics, officials were also in the thick of the fight. Judge Ellen Berger, a pin-eyed East German with the soul of Leo Durocher, detected a U.S. irregularity involving the bat boy. Poor Rhonda Faehn: three years ago, at 14, she left Coon Rapids, Minn., for Houston to tumble...
By now Bush was a one-man cleanup squad for the Republicans, the nicest man to send into the nastiest situations, and the CIA, after the Church committee's investigation, was as battered and demoralized an area as the R.N.C. had recently been. Bush, kept in the dark in earlier...