Word: taciturnly
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...night watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich when, in January 1997, he happened upon the ledgers next to the shredding machine. His disclosure that Switzerland's largest bank was destroying Nazi-era records, even as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts, turned the taciturn Protestant into an international celebrity--and a local pariah. The Zurich district attorney pressed charges against him--later dropped--for violating bank-secrecy laws. He was fired from his job and inundated with death threats and anti-Semitic hate mail...
...titans as the Travelers Group's Sanford Weill and Walt Disney's Michael Eisner. Whoops! To his dismay, Coss may have to repay $40 million of the $102 million bonus he received that year because Green Tree now concedes that accounting errors led it to overstate profits. Says the taciturn and reclusive Coss of the financial revision, which included nearly $400 million of previously unreported losses: "It is certainly disappointing...
...Neighborhood, which just opened on Broadway, he has turned inward. In three brief, tenuously related sketches, we watch as Bobby (Peter Riegert), on a visit to his hometown, has a series of encounters with friends and family: an old pal from the neighborhood; his sister Jolly and her taciturn husband; an ex-girlfriend. It's not hard to recognize Bobby as a stand-in for Mamet, the town as Chicago, where he grew up, and the memories as very likely drawn from his own life. Alas...
...Chekhovian blend of humor and pathos, but falls far short of the mark. Its saving grace is solid ensemble acting, with Julianne Moore and "ER" darling Noah Wyle holding their own as the two central characters who make Thanksgiving a squirm with their barely-concealed resentment toward their taciturn and enigmatic father (Roy Scheider). Unfortunately, none of the characters here are given enough depth or dimension to earn any true empathy. --Lynn...
...humor delineated to them (especially Cookie) becomes irresistibly funny in their hands. They make the fourth couple, Glenn and Cassie Cooper (Seth H. Goldbarg '97 and Taya L. Weiss '99), seem rather anticlimactic. The latter's portrayal of an uppity couple on the rocks--acerbic, paranoically jealous female and taciturn, spectacle-shunning male--has been done before, whereas there's surely never been a couple quite like this Ernie and Cookie...