Word: understatedness
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Beach Red. Peter Bowman's moving free-verse novel about a Marine detachment on a World War II Pacific beach head was an understated masterpiece. In turning it into a film, however, Actor-Director Cornel Wilde has under lined its import so heavily as to convert Bowman's...
What also makes the picture rather staid is that the dastardly plan works perfectly. Equipment doesn't go on the blink, nobody misses connections, thievery's too easy. A little fumbling and a little suspense would have made the situation more of a laff-riot. Even punchlines are terribly understated...
The most impressive poetry in the May Advocate is John Allman's. He has a highly functional sense of rhythm and meter which he combines with a capacity for descriptive precision. In "Cambridge Spring" he uses both skills to recreate the voice of a stunned narrator describing a sudden transition...
The mix of far-out and In, hard and soft, is part of the formula that has kept Bazaar successful since its founding in 1867. This year the magazine celebrates its 100th birthday with a book to be published by Random House and, come fall, a 90-minute TV spectacular...
Tanks at Any Minute. Both Boston's Mayor Collins and New York's John Lindsay pronounced themselves well-satisfied clients. Lindsay called the Central Park design "inconspicuous and understated," a true triumph for the architecture of repression. But both mayors still have to cope with public reaction.