Word: understatedness
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Bellissima has the hard, crudely vigorous look of the good Italian postwar pictures, but deep down, it is soft-focus moviemaking. The mother's last-minute change of mind is unconvincing, and there is no real contrast between the make-believe film world and the world of actuality. Without...
As a portrait of a domestic autocrat, Mr. Nicholas makes grimly impressive reading. Thomas Hinde is not quite the "white hope" of English letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde...
YOUR DEC. 22 TRIBUTE TO JAMES A. HAGERTY WAS DESERVED AND EVEN UNDERSTATED HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL MERITS. BUT AS ONE OF THE SOURCES OF THE ARTICLE, I AM PUZZLED BY THE STATEMENT THAT I DO NOT WRITE MY ELECTION NIGHT STORIES FOR THE
Sellers and distributors want the nickel or so profit they can pick up on 25-cent reprints. The crusading spirit, the desire to quelch this net of understated but forceful censorship, does not draw its strength from this group. These men are all too willing to cooperate, and one can...
To an Alpinist, mountain climbing is the most dangerous and exhilarating sport in the world. To a climber of the towering Himalayas, it is chiefly dangerous. Above the Alpine altitudes, the rarefied atmosphere brings on an overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome...