Word: laconicism
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A father who has been away 30 years returns to find he is resented by his grown son but is warmly accepted by his grandson. Not exactly a high-concept story line, but wait a second, here's the hook: father, son and grandson are played by three generations of...
Arquette's instincts for this kind of comedy are superb. She is a beautiful dreamer walking through a minefield, at once vulnerable and invincible--and just possibly the funny lady the world has been wanting to cuddle up with for years. In Seidelman she has an admirably laconic director who...
It is Roosevelt who initiates the exchange, less than two weeks after the guns of September 1939, by reminding Churchill that they were both naval ministers during World War I. "Keep me in touch personally with anything you want me to know about," Roosevelt urges. Churchill does, first with a...
While Republican politicians generally ducked the furor, even some conservative columnists assailed Reagan. George Will wrote, "The President's laconic, complacent comparison to home improvements misses a few points: the Commander in Chief has more leverage over his forces than the rest of us have over carpenters. And if...
One quest is for coolness. After a year of cultural and emotional R. and R. in Montana, former Magazine Writer Kelly Martin returns to the heat of a New York City summer resolved to find happiness by achieving a perfect balance between being "loving and acid-smart." Instead, she meets...