Word: understatedness
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A slightly different rhythm can be detected in the foreign offspring-in-emotional-peril movies coming to theaters now. In the elegant and understated Strayed, Andre Techine uses a grim, largely offscreen rumble--of war. A soldier's widow, Odile (the unimprovable Emmanuelle Beart), and her two children, 13-year...
“We’re writing for the provost, we’re not writing for a bully pulpit,” he says. “It’s an understated Harvard document.”
That’s Farkes. Always understated. Always calm. And always supremely confident. Before the season, Farkes said he wanted to be the Ivy Player of the Year. He won’t be, but he’s been a heck of a lot for Harvard this season.
In these shows, you have heavy metal and rap, not dance-club remixes. Tattoos and piercings, not Dolce & Gabbana. Metalworking, not wine pairing. If there is such a thing as the opposite of metrosexual, the Gear Eye shows are it. Most important, where Queer Eye is about growing up--becoming...
Heading a multinational drug firm is a high-wire act. When you aren't struggling to satisfy investors, you're justifying the high cost of your products to consumers. Daniel Vasella, CEO of the Swiss company Novartis, seems to pull off the act effortlessly. Urbane, understated and uncommonly charming, Vasella...