Word: understatedness
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For 39 minutes, the president tutored the dean on the finer points of the give-and-go and the nuances of the four-corner stall. The dean was enthralled, in his own understated way.
"We knew they'd be good, but they're really even better than we expected," says the usually understated McLaughlin, who plans to use the duo as fill-ins for veterans Calvin Dixon and Donald Fleming.
All this is a way of saying that Absence of Malice is not what it seems to be either. Over many of its scenes there hangs the jaunty romantic air, half cynical, half idealistic, of an old-fashioned genre film about newspapering-lots of smart cracks, some understated soul searching...
Though Viet Nam veterans never got big parades, by next year they should at least be able to dedicate a memorial to their fallen comrades. But as with so much else touched by that tragic war, the memorial's eloquently understated design is stirring controversy.
Grief is often most eloquent when understated. Author David Plante's seventh novel is a textbook example of such successful reticence. Its narrator, Daniel Francoeur, is a writer living in London; he pays three visits to his aging parents in Providence, the last of them on the occasion of...