Word: understatedness
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Kirk Douglas plays a French colonel who must stand as defense counsel for three of his men after they are made scapegoats for a French military defeat. He's up against a snooty general (George MacReady) worried about preserving his good name, a prosecuting attorney (Richard Anderson) who actually raises...
Not even close. The Raven is a slight album, but the material has a consistent sweetness. Pidgeon's voice is light and agile -- it couldn't fill up a concert hall, but she never overtaxes herself and instead achieves an understated, coffee-bar intimacy. She wrote or co-wrote almost...
The only constant in the whole mess is Charlie Watts' solid, reliable drumming. Never flashy but never too understated, Watts still brings it home with aplomb. Then again, he's never had an extended solo in his whole Stones career. Maybe those jazzy side projects have helped him to stay...
Fyodorov, a former engineer, is the CEO of a company that sells everything from Twix candy bars to $80,000 Jaguars. His well-guarded headquarters, a suite of offices stylishly caparisoned in halogen lamps, marble tiles and tastefully understated artwork, occupies several floors of a converted kindergarten on Marshal Zhukov...
At the extreme, distaste for gays can lead to violence. The FBI, which has begun keeping statistics on hate crimes because of a congressional mandate, reports that in 1992 there were at least 750 cases of assault and intimidation * against homosexual men and women. Those jolting numbers may be vastly...