Word: understatedness
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The Hardest Working Man in Politics made his debut on Sept. 25 in Washington, when Gore and Bradley delivered back-to-back speeches at the fall meeting of the Democratic National Committee. Bradley, who was enjoying his big media moment, went on first. With his reading glasses perched on the...
They gave out awards at last week's Grammy celebration, but really, who cares? Ten minutes into the show, JENNIFER LOPEZ took the stage wearing a Versace palm-print silk chiffon dress, and the seen-it-all industry crowd at Los Angeles' Staples Center audibly gasped. All that stood between...
Rupert Thomson's five novels have earned him the status of a cult figure, at least in the British press, but the London-based author, 44, now seems to be bidding for a somewhat more remunerative title, as in "best seller." Thomson's sixth novel, The Book of Revelation (Knopf...
John C. Reilly is one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets. Or, at least, he used to be. Tending to thrive in atmospheric ensemble pieces like Ulu Grosbard's Georgia and Lasse Hallstrom's What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, the actor's star has risen considerably by way of his...
Watson had sketched out how four chemical bases paired to create a self-copying code at the core of the double-helix-shaped DNA molecule. In the more formal announcement of their discovery, a one-page paper in the journal Nature, they noted the significance in a famously understated sentence...