Word: understatedness
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"Never in the course of our evolution have we taken a decision of such magnitude," beamed Walter Hallstein, the Common Market's usually understated president. "From now on we can only march forward into a European future," exclaimed German Economics Minister Kurt Schmücker. He was stubble-bearded...
Basically, there are only so many ways to wait-standing up, sitting down, leaning over, slumping, and lying flat. But customers and patients, applicants and clients, all take a cue from their common mission, find a suitable code. Couples found in adoption-agency reception rooms affect an air of simple...
De Gaulle's three volumes of war time memoirs, published for the first time in their entirety, are a rung-by-rung account of that ascent. There were no mysteries about it, and De Gaulle makes none. He has been accused of melodrama, egocentricity and arrogance, but his memoirs...
The War of the Buttons is a child's war between the young students of two small French towns, Valeran and Longeverne. They fight in a deserted quarry with sticks and sling shots, yet their exhaustive preparations for battle and ingeniously inventive tactics are uncomfortably familiar to contemporary minds. But...
Night Must Fall is a muscular new version of the 1937 screen classic based on a drama by Emlyn Williams. The original movie was a deftly understated exercise in terror, starring Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty and Robert Montgomery. Now Albert Finney plays the psychopath who moves into an English...