Word: laconicism
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Lucas and Spielberg have also updated Jones's girlfriend to give her none of the stodginess but all of the cool of the great old heroines. Karen Allen plays Jones's companion with a wonderful blend of humor, cynicism and toughness--a hardy, reliable beauty whose prettiness is just a...
Begin did not. He meant the French-built Tammuz 1 nuclear reactor at El-Tuwaitha, 10½ miles southwest of Baghdad. Begin straightway launched into his real reason for calling the meeting: to ponder what Israel should do in the event that the attack taking place 515 miles away should fail...
The matter of the Reagan Invitation was unusual in another respect: it became public, very much so, and in a way that left some University and Kennedy School officials irritated, annoyed, upset, or merely nonplussed. For some reason--officials seem unable to recall exactly where, when, why or how the...
The formal inaugural ceremony was as laconic as tradition allowed. President of the Constitutional Council Roger Frey read a brief statement declaring that Mitterrand had won a majority of votes in the May 10 election. Mitterrand then stepped to the microphones and made a four-minute speech that was obviously...
Throughout, Galbraith is as laconic as an Ontario plow jockey. He offers little about his private life; his wit is a bit too mechanical, as are mordant observations like "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." Yet Galbraith'...