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The House honchos are exercised over CBO's longstanding overstatement of the budget deficit and its recent understatement of the budget surplus.
Here's my theory about what makes The Sopranos different from other TV shows and movies about the mafia . I think The Sopranos brings the understatement of the American short story to a subject usually treated as high drama or farce.
All told, the treaty is so much tougher than anything in the history of global arms control that to call it an important evolutionary step borders on understatement.
Bosworth, the biographer of Diane Arbus and Montgomery Clift, "provides a vivid sense of upper-middle-class life in the early Cold War years, when prominent citizens suddenly turned their backs on colleagues such as Crum and called them Communist dupes," writes Kathy Deacon in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Richard Lingeman says Bosworth "tells her elegiac story in a tone that is admirably restrained, in prose that conveys strong feeling by understatement."
Surely an entry for the understatement of the year.