Word: understatedness
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The pictures he has assembled simply are not the best photographs which have been taken, and not infrequently the photographers he has exhibited have not been the most important photographers working. The most glaring example is the exclusion of both Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander from the show. In almost...
In a sense, the whole Rockefeller family testified in support of Nelson Rockefeller's vice-presidential nomination before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Not in person, of course. Their surrogate was J. Richardson Dilworth, 58, the family's urbane, understated senior financial adviser. Responding to demands of...
Old Times, one of Harold Pinter's journey's into the spaces between words and the spaces between people, is at the Loeb Ex this weekend. Like most of Pinter, it doesn't offer what many theater-goers consider the chief rewards of drama--confrontation, character development, eloquence. Pinter's...
The usually understated Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, made no attempt to play down the dramatic resolution last week of Franklin National Bank's vault of trou bles. "The entire financial world," said he, "can breathe more easily, not only in this country but abroad."
Just how difficult this is to do is demonstrated by the Larsen family's travails on The New Land (ABC, Saturday, 8 p.m. E.D.T). This series is based vaguely on Jan Troell's beautifully photographed, movingly understated and intensely serious films about a family of Swedish pioneer farmers...