Word: understatedness
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College students cluster in the lobby of a Pittsburgh Holiday Inn, taking a break from workshop sessions on how to sell textbooks in the summertime. Only the aberrant lounger among them would admit to not being a moviegoer. The students' age and educational bracket put them squarely in one...
Lummis was especially fearful that Summa could not meet the first installment-an estimated $28 million-on Hughes' estate tax, which falls due next January. He suggested a number of possible economies (like disposing of Hughes' 13-plane fleet of unused executive jets) and the sell-off of...
The police proceed methodically and unemotionally about the solution of the heinous crime. Carl-Gustav Lindstedt turns in a strong, understated performance as Detective-Inspector Martin Beck, an unlikely protagonist given his nondescript, middle-aged appearance and his plodding method. Hakan Serner plays Beck' partner, a worried, weary little man...
Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if...
Emerson is easily the star of the show. His understated style meshes well with the overstated humor of much of the material. He also seems to have been given most of the best lines and is not on stage during the slowest routines. But it is not clear whether Emerson...