Word: understatedness
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The show is designed to demonstrate graphically Gernreich's notion that "fashion as we know it is coming to an end," that designers should no longer be artists but anonymous editors. "The stronger the signature of the designer," he says, "the less acceptable his clothes will be." During the...
Stan Edelson struck me as a very understated man. When he described his production in terms of the highest goals of most of the New Theatre (Open, Free, Living. or Chocolate), it had the effect of a Psychic Pep Talk. He had me up when I walked into the performing...
Television viewers will find little alteration in their favorite. Director Bill Melendez and Producer Lee Mendelson (who also worked together on the TV specials) have scrupulously preserved the eternal suburb of the Peanuts parade, largely through the use of children's voices and subtle, understated colors. Once again, Lucy...
Annoying Ploy. British humor can be highly perishable, and its point is often so obscure as to defy detection -except perhaps, by the British themselves. But Stephen Potter's wry and understated advice on how to win games, including the game of life, with losing hands endeared him to...
The film's every turn and nuance is heightened, given immediate meaning for the character involved, as much by its understated acting as by its simple shooting style. Carol Dempster has come far from the frolics she and Lillian Gish gave Griffith's films of the earlier twenties. And Adolphe...