Word: laconicism
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Finally, late last spring, Laurin told his boss that he was ready to drop the horse into his first race. When she said she was going to be away on a trip, he said, "I'll wait; I think you ought to be here when he runs." Coming from...
Consequently he decided to film India with as little personal intrusion as possible, letting the landscapes and people speak for themselves. At the same time in his laconic French accent Malle narrates his reaction to what he sees and his problems filming. The result is a successful amalgam that is...
Hesse's work oscillated between fundamentalism and funk: on one hand, a reductive, seemingly casual approach to sculpture, which also lay behind the scatterings and floor pieces of artists like Richard Serra and Carl Andre (shavings, or planks, or tiles, or indeed anything except a figure on a base...
Radio Amman chose the occasion of King Hussein's 37th birthday last week to issue a rather odd disclaimer. "Certain information media have linked the name of His Majesty to the name of Miss Alia Bahaeddin Toukan," declared a laconic announcer. It was true, he continued, that the King...
The Misfits. John Huston directed from an Arthur Miller screenplay, and his better instincts were restrained by the playwright's preachy ineptitude. For a film that purports to examine the limitations of man's man mystique, it shares surprisingly many of the flaws of any pretentious "adult" western. The woman...