"The Savages," a lesser affair, but still vital, honest, and engaging, is about a saturnine theatre professor (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who specializes in the most acidulous of twentieth-century artists, Bertolt Brecht, and his kid sister (Laura Linney), an unproduced playwright who gets by with temp jobs, stealing from office supply rooms, and hustling for grants.
If big races and possible long-term implications aren't your thing, there are some other lesser known affairs could keep result-watchers up for much of the night: It's a fight between the business-friendly establishment candidate Bradley Byrne and Tea Partier Dean Young.
And Murli Deora was shifted from the Petroleum Ministry to the lesser perch of corporate affairs.
"Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men," said Mr Obama.
Every one of Macmillan's words remains as true and powerful today as in 1962 – except that, first, the six are now the 27; and second, Britain is a much lesser force in world affairs, making the problem he describes more acute.
Uatu, the Watcher: A younger member of a race of intelligent beings who have sworn not to interfere in the affairs of lesser races, only to watch and observe.
"The Arctic is a bit special for civility," he says, "You cannot survive alone in the Arctic: this is perhaps true for countries as well as individuals".The United States is less prominent in Arctic affairs, reflecting its lesser interest in the region and lukewarm enthusiasm for international decision-making.
Lesser known was his love affair with painting, his refuge from the stresses of politics and journalism.
The Regent let his ministers take full charge of government affairs, playing a far lesser role than his father.
Now 50, he occupies offices in a far lesser skyscraper - a smoked-glass affair in Midtown Manhattan.
