Word: laconicism
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THE ACTING in this show is superb throughout, from Brian Bedford's cold portrayal of the cynical Dysart to Humbert Allen Astredo's rendering of the nervous father, shuffling about, pulling his hat round in circles between his thumb and forefinger. Bedford's performance is best, although it was marred...
Then came the chilling news of Pawlowski's arrest. In a laconic communique last June that was buried in most Polish papers-some printed the item on the sports page-the official Polish news agency PAP announced that the champion had been arrested "in connection with the suspicion that...
One thinks first of Beck himself, chief (since The Abominable Man) of Sweden's National Homicide Squad. A laconic fellow with bad digestion and a fear of flying, he has only two diversions: building model boats and working jigsaw puzzles. In The Man on the Balcony, Beck considers his...
Britain's Dick Francis was once a champion steeplechase rider; since 1964 he has been booting home thrillers about horse racing. In KNOCKDOWN (Harper & Row; 217 pages; $6.95), his 15th, Francis penetrates the roseate façade of Ascot and Newmarket to examine the seamy, ruthless world of horseflesh...
"Gentlemen, start your engines." The laconic command, copied from the Indianapolis 500 auto race, echoed from the public-address system of the U.S.S. Hancock. Moments later, the commander of Heavy Helicopter Squadron 463, Lieut. Colonel Herbert Fix, lifted his CH-53 Sea Stallion off the deck of the aging carrier...