Word: taciturn
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...been in charge of negotiations since 1973. They made a formidable team that Latin America called "Hit 'em high, Hit 'em low." Linowitz kept pressing hard, talking fast, rarely letting up. "He works with all his heart and lungs," said his admiring adversary Escobar. More low-keyed and taciturn, Bunker was an inspired contriver of compromises. He also defused arguments by occasionally dozing off?or seeming...
...campaign pits incumbent President Arnold Miller, 54, a taciturn, pallid veteran of 22 years in the mines, against an old friend and an old foe. The former ally is Patrick, 46, a fiery reformer who helped Miller oust the corrupt regime of W.A. ("Tony") Boyle five years ago; Patrick is now U.M.W. secretary-treasurer. The longtime Miller opponent is Lee Roy Patterson, 42, a onetime crony of Boyle's and a member of the union's executive board. Miller appears to be the front runner; Patterson, benefiting from a split in the reform vote between Miller and Patrick...
...stud who has been flown into Los Angeles by his millionaire father (Denver Pyle) on the pretense of composing a battery of tunes for a superstar singer's next album. We see Carroll whisked from office to office, from bitter reunion to happy reunion, from boudoir to boudoir. A taciturn character by nature who oozes ennui from every pore, Carroll is everybody's darling, from his rags-to-riches dad who hasn't received a letter from his prodigal son in three years to the older women who roll out the red carpet for this slightly bewildered conquistador...
Short and taciturn, Kim was previously known for his unswerving loyalty to the Park regime. While an honor student at Seoul National University in 1960, he led a bloody student uprising that helped bring about the downfall of Dictator Syngman Rhee. A year later he was recruited by the KCIA. Assigned to Washington in 1970, he quickly became the South Korean embassy's expert-in-residence on how to hook a Congressman...
...portraying Brick, a difficult, ambiguous role, Wagner chooses to be a taciturn neutral who has made a separate, soluble peace with the bottle. Yet at the end, he seems gallantly ready to break his marital fast to honor Maggie's plantation-hungry lie to Big Daddy that she is pregnant...