Word: vaguest
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...scenarist, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, neglect most of the objects in the foreground. A face outlined here, a figure there, and they consider the task completed. It is not. The guru and the singer may be alive; the rest are actors sitting for sketches with only the vaguest dimension or purpose. Moreover, lines like "I feel so trapped. No one here understands me" tend to mock the film's painfully straight face...
That presented problems for his would-be bioggraphers as they rushed their books to press. The better of the biographies restricted themselves to recounting his career. Too many of the others filled the void with scribblings ranging from near slander to the vaguest musings about the man's personal affairs to pompous pronouncements on his virtues and shortcomings. As a result, Dag Hammarskjold the man remained an enigma to all but the circle of his closer friends...
Commuting back and forth between his army camp and his studio in a Paris suburb, Duchamp-Villon modeled his first equestrian studies with horse and rider. Then as he continued working, he merged the two, smoothed down the surfaces to the metallic glisten of machinery. Only the vaguest form of a hoof in the cubistic sculpture resembles a steed thundering down the stretch. Fetlocks and hindquarters dissolved into the hard shape of cams, pistons and gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such...
...Corps General Nguyen Chanh Thi last month. A harsh crackdown on the demonstrators-mostly students-would only play into the hands of the waiting Buddhists, who first rose to power when the Saigon government invaded their pagodas three years ago. Moreover, the anti-Ky groups had only the vaguest of aims-and the mildest of manners...
...Santo Domingo, stirring up guerrilla trouble variously in Peru, Colombia, Guatemala and Argentina. Other stories whispered that he had been demoted, possibly put in jail, maybe even executed. In his speech last week, promising to clear up the status of "el Companero Ernesto Guevara," Castro gave only the vaguest hints as to what that status might be. "The enemy has put out many guesses and rumors, sometimes confused, sometimes trying to confuse," said Castro. "Well, in a few days, we are going to read a document by el Compañero Ernesto Guevara that explains his absence during these past...