Word: understatedness
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Not that her troubles were over. Screenwriting jobs dried up overnight. She was forced to sell her beloved farm in Pleasantville, N.Y., and, at a particularly low ebb, clerk in a Manhattan department store. Scoundrel Time does not dwell on these privations or, for that matter, anything else. It can...
In the letter Chapman says he'd like to have a "chat" with each contestant. He doesn't say a "talk" or a "meeting" because you can just tell, as I could see later, that he's the type of person who would chat--with a sort of clipped voice...
"The OCR officials seemed to agree with the analysis that the University has used understated figures of women and minority group members available for hiring," one task force member who attended the meeting said this week. "They seemed to consider our report of significant value," he said.
The member said the OCR officials seemed to agree with the Task Force that the numbers of women and minority group members available for hiring may be understated in figures used by the University, although not as much as indicated by the analysis.
THE ACTING in this show is superb throughout, from Brian Bedford's cold portrayal of the cynical Dysart to Humbert Allen Astredo's rendering of the nervous father, shuffling about, pulling his hat round in circles between his thumb and forefinger. Bedford's performance is best, although it was marred...