Word: understatedness
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This unpretentious movie about a group of American "advisers" in Viet Nam in 1964, before the war was thoroughly Americanized, has the virtues of its defects. It is understated, lacking in powerful dramatic incident and high human emotion, and rather flatly written and directed. As a result, it has about...
Though all the Sisters' sales are more than double those in the embargo year of 1973, when the cheap-oil era ended, only three of the companies earned more profit last year than they did then: Shell, Mobil and California Standard (SoCal), which markets under its Chevron Trademark. And...
Burstyn's understated performance as a simple, Bible-spouting woman driven crazy by her husband's philandering is the movie's single redeeming feature. Otherwise there is nothing emotionally or intellectually involving here. Unless, of course, one is interested in some "personal statements" about the state of...
The President was at his understated, low-key best, and if he did not convince his skeptical audience, he did not antagonize them either. In his opening remarks, he pledged: "There is no way that this legislation which has been proposed...can possibly hurt any competent and dedicated public servant...
Today Conrad has replaced Victor Hugo. A similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced...