Word: laconicism
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In contrast to these technology-obsessed works, Gabriel Orozco contributes a table cluttered with quiet, ephemeral models. His attention to materials and tiny scale transforms dried oranges, spotted seed pods, a papier mache mold of a sock, and a tower of Yardley soap boxes into intimate marvels. These laconic sculptures...
Sling Blade may be too scrupulously attentive to the rhythms and speech of the small-town South; it easily breaks the all-time record for use of the word reckon. But as incarnated in writer-director Thornton's laconic bass voice and wonderfully shambling gait, Karl is a memorable, affecting...
Another politician off the Plains, William Jennings Bryan, a man who could make Bill Clinton come off as laconic, remained so closely associated with Nebraska that he was sometimes known as "the boy orator of the Platte." (The Smoky Hill River does run through Russell County, Kansas, but Dole has...
4 DR. KATZ: PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST (COMEDY CENTRAL) Pay no mind to all those imitation Friends. This witty, laconic cartoon comedy, in which a pensive analyst deals with a floundering son and a host of weirdly neurotic patients, is the year's best new sitcom.
Rather than trying to mirror the overexposed world of upper-middle-class urban life, Dr. Katz creates its own absurd version of it. The show revolves around Dr. Katz (his voice belongs to creator and writer Jonathan Katz), a divorced psychoanalyst saddled with a 23-year-old son who still...