Word: taciturn
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...splendid set of peripheral bit players first reach the reader, filtered through the ironic mind of Dr. Plarr. His own bereaved mother, living on sweet cakes and self-pity in Buenos Aires. Romantic Novelist Jorge Julio Saavedra, author of The Taciturn Heart, whose machismo-marinated works are timeless and thus lifeless as well. A British ambassador who begins to sense the sheer outrage of U.S. imperialism when he finds that the embassy cook automatically fries his eggs Yankee style. Fortnum's wife Clara, who is (yes) a graduate of Madame Sanchez's immaculate brothel and the object...
...Dancing follows the getaway trail of a band of train robbers in the Old West, led by Burt Reynolds, who plays a taciturn and tough ex-Army Captain. In the midst of its carefully planned heist, his gang is forced to include Sarah Miles in the escape. Miles portrays a rich young runaway wife, who improbably decides to board the train at the spot where Reynolds' men dynamite the tracks...
...coup for Cavett: coaxing Actor Marlon Brando into his first TV interview. Dick promised that the taciturn actor could talk about his favorite cause, the American Indian. He did, and he also brought on a Cheyenne, a Paiute and a Lummi. Cavett wanted to hear about Last Tango in Paris ("I haven't seen the movie," muttered Brando) and The Godfather ("I don't want to talk about movies"). So the evening went. Later, on his way to dinner with Cavett, Brando got into a row with Ron Galella, the peskily persistent photographer whom Jacqueline Onassis...
...Rotarian and former Sunday school teacher, the silver-haired native of Kansas City occasionally gardens but has few interests outside of his work, his wife Ruby, two grown children and two grandchildren. Those who work with him say he is affable, even-tempered and taciturn. In high school he was nicknamed "Chief" because his slightly stooped frame (6 ft., 200 lbs.) resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted...
...newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Saigon rather resembles his predecessor-tall, spare, white-haired, with a patrician bearing that exudes authority. There the resemblance ends. While the retiring Ellsworth Bunker has a genial courtliness that enables him to get along with almost anyone, Graham Martin is aloof, tough and taciturn-so much so that he has alienated many people. Nonetheless, both friends and critics agree that Martin is well suited for the hard job ahead...