Word: laconicism
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Presenting Benny with a $109,081 tax bill, the IRS rejected the deduction on the ground that the value of the donated material may have diminished if Benny had sold any of the production (dramatic, radio, TV or movie) rights in it. But Benny says: "I owned everything." Asked whether...
It is this book's pretense that there actually was (and is) a James Bond, whose real life corresponds startlingly with Fleming's "fiction." Run to earth in Bermuda and interviewed by Pearson, the real Bond is slightly older than he was at his last appearance in The...
MYTH by Brian O'Doherty. 288 pages. Random House. $25. "Between an artist and his work on the one hand, and the audience on the other," notes Critic Brian O'Doherty, "there are large areas for misunderstanding." O'Doherty, who paints (under the name Patrick Ireland) and...
A recent step in Wyeth's slow move away from anecdote is marked by a group of nudes. The model was a teenage girl named Siri Erickson, daughter of one of Wyeth's Finnish neighbors. "She had this immense vitality," says Wyeth. "I liked that directness. She'...
In the Rangers' clubhouse before Sunday's rain-delayed and shortened game, Clyde was equally poised. The handsome, tanned pitcher has about him the bluff laconic modesty of the stereo-typed seasoned pro, rather than the open, freckled brashness of the fancied rookie. He scoffs at the suggestion that he...