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Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.
Perhaps it would be better to have a restrained and less intrusive government, as Jefferson envisioned.
Optimists hailed it as a restrained and responsible measure that "limits spending in a booming economy."
San Agustín is a restrained area of apartments, catering for more mature and discerning vacationers.
He had been restrained in vain.