Word: taciturn
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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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...
...seems, to the sun-splashed dazzle of the Summer Games. Barcelona this year has Gaudi, Miro, Isozaki; Albertville has mostly an industrial town that sounds as if it were named after the Crown Prince of Monaco (a member of the Monegasque bobsled team). The Winter Games are chill, Nordic, taciturn -- redolent of Ingmar Bergman and dark Decembers. Instead of sprints and dives, they offer double Axels (not what you find on the bottom of your Peugeot) and luges (which one American Congressman took to be something...