Word: taciturnly
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...craft. "He'll put a spin on each take," says Oliver Stone, who cast Jones in JFK and in the forthcoming Heaven and Earth and Natural Born Killers. "He can deliver different pitches: slow balls, fastballs, curves, sliders." Stone says Jones is "not a party animal. He's reticent, taciturn." A crew member on The Client notes that Jones "won't talk much about personal things. But he talked to a friend of mine for an hour about Texas horny toads...
...artist of more modest and domestically inclined talents. While the parallels with contemporary culture wars are obvious -- and reinforced by the use of electronically jazzed-up classical music during scene changes -- the text is short on plot and long on debate, to a degree that makes Shaw look taciturn. In touching on many themes, it embraces none. The excitement comes from Stevenson, flailing in outrage, cosseting a deranged daughter, nibbling her lover's abdomen in tenderness, peering with professional scrutiny at a war victim's ghastly wounds. The role offers an actress everything, and Stevenson is everything one could want...
READING EVE HOROWITZ'S PLAIN JANE (Random House; $20) is like listening to a World Series no-hitter called by a taciturn announcer: the listener knows something terrific is happening out there, but he just can't hear it. The narrator is teenager Jane Singer, second daughter of a gently Jewish family from Cleveland and worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except...
...former Defense Minister who ordered his army to use "force, strength and blows" to stop the intifadeh. He is the ex-general who, during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, proposed tightening up the siege on Beirut by cutting off food and water to the populace. This reserved, taciturn man is no tender heart, no dove...
...island of quality cinema. "We're like the government of the U.S. sometimes," notes Ivory as the trio sits in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress, and she's the Supreme Court." The usually taciturn Prawer Jhabvala demurs, "They're more like Laurel and Hardy." Or the fabulous Baker boys, harmonizing from one dicey project to the next, with Prawer Jhabvala as their stern muse...