He conducted a professional – albeit terse – interview with no surprises.
"As of the June 2012 issue, Opera News is not reviewing Metropolitan Opera productions," F. Paul Driscoll, the magazine's editor in chief, said in a terse telephone interview.
But Marietta Chisolm, president of the board, insisted in a terse phone interview yesterday evening: "No parent has ever complained to me about Ms. Dauway.
The guard goes up; terse interviews go viral.
Asked about the move, he offered a terse "no comment," and ended the interview.
Mr. Biederman and other officials of the Grand Central district declined to be interviewed, instead offering a terse prepared statement saying that they were "surprised" by the city's action.
Lerach, after initially responding to some questions from FORBES, refused to be interviewed and instructed in a terse e-mail: "Please don't call, write or stop by ever again".
He remains reluctant to talk about Sharapova to the media, and questions about her comments on Serena Williams's interview with Rolling Stone met with a terse reaction.
Mrs. Gardiner and her lawyer, Sanford Krigel, refused interview requests today and released a terse statement calling the decision "a step in the wrong direction" and suggesting that they might appeal to the United States Supreme Court.
His legal team replied offering free tickets to Edinburgh only to eventually receive a "terse, one sentence" disclosure statement detailing the grounds they had to interview him – namely a complaint made by a religious group.
