Word: laconicism
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Precision and Balance. Chance's resemblance to Voltaire's Candide ("We must cultivate our garden") and even to Buster Keaton's deadpan clown is fairly obvious. Despite the implausibility of the plot, the precision and balance of Kosinski's laconic prose, and his ability to animate...
It was not until his return to New York and his marriage to Marie Jane Hughes that Marin took possession of his freedom as a painter. The Manhattan watercolors of 1911-13, with their thrust, chop and bustle of tower, facade and street, are a peculiarly American reaction to that...
The play is laced with laconic, seemingly perfunctory responses such as "Oh, yes," "Ah, well," "Really?" but Director Lindsay Anderson has orchestrated these in a stylized contrapuntal flow that achieves the repetitive impact of similarly sparse dialogue in Pinter and Beckett. Gielgud and Richardson are a beautifully complementary pair, the...
Of her work, Georgia O'Keeffe once remarked: "Sometimes I have resisted painting something that seemed to me so ordinary, hardly worth doing. But when I do it and it's done, it's different from what other people see. It is ordinary to me, but not...
Unequal Time. Amongst mannerisms and quirks, Nicholson rides uneasily. As he plays him, Robert is a hollow man who can grab but not touch; in his joyless sex scenes and sudden tantrums, the failed prodigy is pathetically credible. But his attempts at humor make him look a bit like a...