Ask him about his dayjob and his answers take on a terse tone.
His stories about the celebrities whose paths he crosses stay on the terse surface.
They didn't have much to go on: a terse statement from the Australian and New Zealand governments, and some brief comments from an unnamed intelligence source.
Mann's masterpiece (next to last of his 12 westerns) is Man of the West, based on a terse screenplay by Reginald Rose, author of 12 Angry Men.
Wednesday's show, broadcast and archived online by WBGO in Newark (88.3 FM), included a few of these, including "Bridge to Nowhere," a smart-alecky swinger built on a terse three-bar form.
And on shadowy nights when Ambien supplies run low, aimless online wanderers can hear the resounding voice of the acidhead Timothy Leary — who boasted in the '90s that he'd live forever in cyberspace — on his terse and spacey site.
Or, to cite no less distinguished an author than Harold Bloom, in an essay on that terse masterwork "The Fatal Glass of Beer," Fields shows us what it means to dwell amid "sublime vileness" and the "stunningly squalid".
(Merge) Advice on survival, terse portraits of marginal lives, glimpses of faith and epigrams of despair — "I'm still here/But all is lost" — share the songs on "Transcendental Youth," the 14th studio album by the songwriter John Darnielle's band, the Mountain Goats.
If it will cheer him any in what may otherwise be a bleak period for him, we extend our congratulations on the terse, atypical communication he sent to John Foster Dulles approving the speech Mr. Dulles made before the Security Council of the U.N.
He had long since made his separate peace with the war of his youth and focussed his talent on the terse eloquence of the nobly wounded, the faithfully adrift, the stoically defeated; the Hemingway antihero, withdrawn from all causes, became a type of such popular influence that a whole crop of movies, novels, and actual lives grew laconic in imitation.
