Word: understatedness
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War Hunt is an astringent, understated film in which the subtle interplay of surface and substance produces an ambiguity of multiple meanings. The company commander, for example, regards Endore as "a valuable man," and deliberately blinds himself to the fearsome core of Endore's nature. The C.O. is the...
Toward the end of October, Ceezee moves into the Guests' Manhattan apartment on Sutton Place (TIME. April 13) to take up her role as hostess and leader of fashion in this entertainment and fashion center of the world. For the past 14 years she has bought all her clothes...
Faulkner's art as its best has the intense but understated moral quality that distinguishes many masterpieces of the human mind. As a literary artist, Faulkner wrestled manfully with the problems of the individual and a collapsing social structure which is somehow still better than any alternative. That Faulkner in...
Very much in this year is slight, soft-spoken Donald Brooks, 34, who has given to middle-income womanhood the understated elegance hitherto associated with high-price high fashion. Last April the New York Drama Critics presented him with their annual award for his costumes for Richard Rodgers' No...
*If Blough grossly understated the impact of the steel price boosts, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who also should have known better, grossly overstated the impact. He passed on to President Kennedy a wild estimate that the steel price increases would add $1 billion to defense costs. That figure was arrived...