Word: laconicism
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Like so many movies and books that try to graft topical subject matter onto the obsessive mass-market interest in the Nazi past. The Formula requires too much exposition. By the time all the improbable explanations for its linkages between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have...
The country seems to have acquired a President whose utterances will be laconic, casual in phrasing and not too detailed in argument. This will leave others to explain the facts of a case, the give-and-take of decision making and the reasoning behind policy judgments. There will be constant...
Reports of the Majlis debate began flowing into the State Department's seventh-floor operations center just before midnight. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher telephoned Carter with word of the Majlis action shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday, and the President instructed Secretary of State Edmund Muskie to brief congressional...
The show entitled "German Realism of the Twenties: The Artist as Social Critic," which opened earlier this fall at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and moves to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art on Nov. 22, deals with an aspect of modernism that 15 years ago was thought hardly...
At times the chase through this maze is needlessly confusing; it is often hard to tell past from present. A pity, because everything else in the program demonstrates lapidary craftsmanship. Producer Jonathan Powell, Adapter Arthur Hopcraft and Director John Irvin are like glypticians bent on chiseling one perfect series for...