Word: laconicism
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H.C. Westermann's images are radically different. They are both limpid and mysterious, and this is largely the result of Westermann's loving attention to craft. He manipulates his repertory of boxes, laminations, dovetails, locks, hinges and clamps with unerring finesse. The effect-as in the absurd log...
This is a genial, laconic account of the road back from disaster. Six years ago, when he was 51, Tex Maule, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, had a massive heart attack. He almost died then and there, mainly because he stumbled out of bed rather than accept a bedpan and crashed...
Price of Peace. In the past, Norris has paid a high price in peacetime for its war wealth. Its profits dropped dramatically after World War II. That could happen again when the Viet Nam War ends, but the switch to civilian production makes that much less likely than it would...
Grimes, who underwent a somewhat less violent coming of age in The Summer of '42, has a scene in Culpepper that is served up to him as a piping hot cliché: The Kid's First Drink. He handles the whole thing very gracefully by taking his belt...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Little Murders are two flawed but worthy American films. The first evokes a time when a man could win on style alone--the American Dream at its most basic. A tin-horn gambler and a golden-haired whore play out a laconic male, smart-bitch...