Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with the hundreds of "inaudible" and excised passages, the transcripts provided an extraordinary look at Nixon in private. His conversations were often bizarre, involving hours of foggy and imprecise musing. Instead of a tough, calculating, incisive Nixon, the transcripts revealed a lonely, aloof President who could not remember dates, could not recall Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt's name, and who forgot that another of the convicted conspirators, G. Gordon Liddy, was in prison. In the transcripts, Nixon made few decisions, issued few orders and almost never exhibited the quick, encyclopedic mind that associates claim...
...preserve the dignity of the state, asked if he could formally turn over the powers of his office to General António de Spínola, the spiritual leader of the rebellion, rather than let the government "fall in the streets." Spínola, who claimed to be aloof from the plotting, replied that he would have to consult the junior officers who had led the coup. "I am not the leader of this movement," he maintained. "I did not act against the government." He added: "If the government has the good sense to find a solution, I think...
...home, Merle is a somewhat casual father of four children, but he is not at the mansion all that often either. "Maybe it's too fancy or something," says Bonnie. Whatever it is, Haggard tends to drop out of sight for days at a stretch, then calmly reappear. Aloof from all but a few friends, who predate his fame, and indifferent to publicity, Haggard would rather be jamming all night at J.D.'s, a small club in Ridgecrest in the Mojave Desert. Or gambling in Reno, where he dropped $80,000 two weeks ago. Or else engaged...
...parents, Randolph Apperson and Catherine Hearst, were notably apolitical and in general stayed aloof from the Burlingame Country Club set around Hillsborough. Since her kidnaping, Randolph, chairman of the Hearst Corp. and editor of the San Francisco Examiner, has devoted himself almost entirely to getting Patty released. Before he paid out $500,000 for food as part of the effort to satisfy the S.L. A.'s demands, he estimated his net worth at $2 million. He earns about $100,000 a year from the Hearst Corp. Wife Catherine, a Southern belle from Atlanta, is a staunch Roman Catholic...
...them less approachable. One cannot easily imagine fondling a Giacometti. It would not feel good, and in any case the thing always seems too far away. It was the use of distance, both real and implied, to disclose meaning that gave Giacometti's work so much of its aloof, hieratic tension...