Word: stoics
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...Niro plays Ace Rothstein, a Jewish odds maker so successful in Brooklyn that he is sent to run the massive Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas. Now that they are legal, his talents are even more impressive; Ace's stoic and calculated methods are a thrill to watch...
People all along the so-called Emerald Coast suddenly found themselves either homeless or facing major repairs. In Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where large yachts littered the main street, Rodney Holcombe, 36, tried to be stoic about the loss of his floating home, a 36-ft. trimaran sailboat on which he had no insurance. "I guess this is my $25,000 week," he joked glumly. "Maybe I can get some Federal Emergency Management Agency money." Holcombe notes that he has had trouble finding a hotel vacancy because out-of-town insurance adjusters and Red Cross workers have taken almost...
...gunpoint to smile; after considering whether he'd rather die, Keaton fingers the corners of his mouth into an awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
...from a text he recited a lengthy short story which he had learned by heart. Hagar ironically states that is was "recited quite beautifully...a morbid, witty short story." Albeit while the author was "drunk?" Will Self was not drunk. He simply veered away from the conventional and often stoic approaches to giving a reading by bringing a beer to the podium. He was still nursing in after the hordes of "old people" had finished getting their books signed...
...militias being the embryos of an American Nazism. That is overheated; anyway, why go abroad for bad news? The real precedents are homegrown. Years ago, D.H. Lawrence, making his way through American literature, fell upon Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo and pronounced, "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." A fancy line, but true only of a certain whip-mean conscienceless strain in the American character. It is not a bad description of the Oklahoma City suspect's eyes...