Word: laconicism
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So did Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero, a timely bit of voyeurism about the sordid lives of rich Los Angeles youth. As the title suggests, the characters are intellectual and emotional ciphers. Ellis' documentary intentions are clear, but his laconic descriptions of numb fornications, pharmacological excesses and teenage nihilism...
Scrupulously following the action of Shakespeare's play, The Skinhead Hamlet nonetheless observes the aesthetic standards of its modern setting. Going far beyond the Bard's request for "brevity," playwright Richard Curtis has provided the most laconic dialogue in memory. Hamlet's famous--and, in a bad production, interminable--soliloquy...
For a U.S. Senator, Sam Nunn is unusually laconic. Last week, to make matters worse, he was suffering from laryngitis. But the Georgia Democrat, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, had a lot to say, so he stocked up on throat lozenges. In a series of speeches in the Senate...
The architect of this unique cinematic boot camp, this military Method acting class, was Captain Dale Dye, 42, a retired Marine Corps lifer who served as the film's technical adviser. He vowed to "give some of these soft city kids a crash course in jungle fighting." Tall and ruggedly...
Everyone hushes up Cat's questions and hides the grim truth about his family with cursory words of reassurance. Laconic about his feelings, Cat has come to expect the worst. The kittenish, playful child has become the Cat that Walks by Himself.