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What more need be said about the name given to Selma's all-black housing project, the Nathan B. Forrest Homes, than what Horwitz dryly observes: "an odd choice, given Forrest's notoriety as a slave trader and Imperial Wizard of the KKK"?
She can be a great movie actress, but a key to that greatness is how her dryly sardonic voice--with its edge of neurotic insecurity--plays against her ethereal features and brings her down to earth.
' ” First published in 1975, this dryly written paper provides much of the analytical information needed to counter the stereotypical “hysterical fuss” reaction.
They dismiss her as a mere "wardrobe consultant" who has shuffled Gore's "shirt-and-tie combination," instructed him to wear "brown, olive, and tan," and told him "to wear different colored suits and all that"--evidently to no effect, since, as Cohen dryly observes, "polls have yet to record the difference."
The NYT 's coverage of Hungary's celebration dryly mentions "a journalist" getting "belted" twice in a minute by a reveler and then hit again by another.