Word: laconicism
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It is easy to see why the notion of adapting this story has tempted moviemakers for three decades. Hollywood's self-referential myths, far more than baseball's, revolve around the seduction and betrayal of the innocent. But now that the deed is done, it is equally easy...
Perhaps all this was inevitable: those existential props, the Man Between and the Border, need a fresher approach than laconic narrative, no matter how charged with significance. Hemenway's best passages remain celebrations of the ordinary: meals, lovemaking, conversations with friends. For him, as for so many contemporary American...
Kuralt's official destination that day was a one-man steam sawmill outside Onalaska, owned and operated by Gene Frase, 70, a laconic, down-to-earth man who turns downright poetic when he talks about his conflicting passions: the sweetly efficient steam engine and the lost stands of tall...
It is infused, at the start, with a real sense of fright: the noonday demon, as it were, lurking in the woodpile. Surls' huge wraiths posture and writhe on point with a sort of evilly humorous grace; they summon up nursery horrors, tree demons, swamp critters. They have some...
The electronic glitches that led to those fears began on Columbia 's ninth day in orbit as it circled 155 miles above the earth. The flight had already been lengthened by 24 hours to give ground scientists more experiment time. This was made possible by the shuttle's...