Word: laconicism
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After a lackluster first half--reminiscent of most of the Crimson's recent efforts--Cornell led, 42-34. But something happened in the locker room, and the hoopsters emerged for the second half looking nothing like their dismal record would indicate, playing inspired and hustling basketball. "We just got more...
Sandage prefers to stick with measurements implying an age closer to 20 billion years. Why? He cites, among other items, his latest research into the age of great spherical clusters of stars in the halo of the Milky Way. He and Colleague Gustav Tammann found they are some 17 billion...
DIED. Hoagy Carmichael, 82, composer of songs that influenced the Big Band sound of the 1930s and 1940s and made him a popular music idol; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. A self-taught musician who briefly practiced law, Carmichael was captivated by the syncopated rhythm and improvisational style of Jazz Great...
Quite the contrary. People, even when hoarse, tend to discourse clearly and repetitiously about the common cold. Cold victims routinely elucidate their suffering; those who are ordinarily laconic grow voluble, and the normally gabby become windy, lugubrious. With or without colds, people eagerly pass around whatever they possess of society...
Thus does the Lost Patrol genre somewhat uneasily meet Deliverance. The film is handsome, has a few good patches of gritty, laconic dialogue and is well crafted by Director Hill, who has proved in such previous straight-line adventures as The Warriors and The Long Riders that he is probably...