To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of his career, John Prine is doing something typically eccentric: he's putting out a pair of tapes from his early days that show the roots of his laconic humor and homespun wisdom.
He'd signed on to direct an American version of the Australian hit show, known for its laconic humor and hyped-up verité style.
Here, with some help from John Ashbery's poetry collection of the same title, Mr. Monk splits the difference between Mr. Ruscha's laconic humor and his own morbid romanticism.
His last few films have drawn only modest audiences in the United States -- though abroad they draw crowds and his laconic humor is admired as deeply American.
Now, special shields on the lights allow for night games, and Gartrell, who is 57, coaches with a laconic humor that suits the ranchers who gather to swap stories at restaurants like Mary Lou's and Pop's Grill.
He offered a flash of his laconic humor when, after being read a long litany of issues he may have to confront during his short tenure, he replied, "Oh, is that it?" Mr. Chiesa served as chief counsel to Mr. Christie from January 2010 through December 2011, when he was nominated to be attorney general.
Wood's new book, THE FUN STUFF: And Other Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27), possesses many of the pleasures of his previous collections "The Broken Estate" (1999) and "The Irresponsible Self" (2004): the same tight weave, the laconic humor, the genius for metaphor (Flaubert, "the agonist of style, assassinated repetitions like insects").
In between recipes, butlers laconic humor and no-nonsense prose style set a mood appropriate to the creation and enjoyment of these down-home meals and desserts.
Repetition and temp morts, as ever in Jarmusch, have their place, as do the laconic humor slow fades to black, and the droll protagonist.
He was 6 feet 7 inches tall, well liked off the ice for his laconic good humor and, on it, the league's most feared fighter.
From the conceptual absurdity of his drug-dealing baby bit to the laconic stoner humor of Half-Baked, Chappelle never seemed to embrace the theatrics of Rock or Murphy (and their descendent, Hart).
