Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paul has always been a little aloof," says the longtime Johnson friend, who believes the chief's hands-off leadership style may have to do with his upbringing. "The people don't know him that well...
...same River Twice reads at times like a D. H. Lawrence novella. It shares the same elaborate vision of a natural world at once aloof from and akin to humanity. But the autobiographical reminiscences add an endearing personal flourish...
Kravis doesn't get off so easily. Clearly Pryce, a tall, refined, dapper Welshman, bears no physical or cultural resemblance to the short, nouveau- riche, noncharismatic Kravis. Moreover, the aloof Pryce does not seem like the sort of person who would ever threaten to break both of a society columnist's kneecaps at a benefit, as Kravis reportedly once did. In fact, Pryce does not look like the sort of person who would threaten to break even one of a society columnist's kneecaps. Nevertheless, his performance works, in part because he is so understatedly malevolent, in part because...
...animal segments on television's Live with Regis & Kathie Lee. "Years ago," he says, "I wrote an article on the effects of divorce on pets. People said I was crazy. Now it's actively under research." Eckstein even attacks the conventional wisdom that dogs are gregarious and cats are aloof. "It all depends on how you treat them. Raise a kitten the way you would a puppy, and it will grow up to act like a dog." (Scientists like Bekoff insist that the behavioral differences are in fact innate and that they are relics of the animals' past: wolves...
...timers canceled by NBC last year, are back and doing well on new networks. NBC executives have acknowledged that they probably moved too fast to junk aging shows and replace them with youth-oriented sitcoms. It is no accident that CBS, the one network that has stayed aloof from the youthquake, is No. 1 in the ratings, with "mature" shows like Murder, She Wrote, 60 Minutes and Evening Shade...