Word: aloof
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...Tung, the son of a shipping magnate, is the biggest old boy, but even he now appears to realize that he cannot remain aloof from the public. Last Thursday, a double-decker bus plunged off an elevated highway, killing 21 people; the Chief Executive rushed to the accident scene and then visited the injured in hospital. It was the kind of P.R. Tung had eschewed in the past, even during the SARS crisis. But Tung's heartstrings these days may well be more attuned to the victims and survivors of a crash: his Administration is in the middle...
...sense of aloofness has always been a Kerry problem-"You shouldn't hold John's looks against him," former Senator Bob Kerrey once told me-and Dean's chesty informality has only exacerbated Kerry's air of dour Brahmin solemnity. In truth, he isn't so much aloof as he is courtly, in a formal, afternoon-tea sort of way. The shoutathon of modern politics discomforts him. He is a serious, experienced, thoughtful man; his policy speeches have been among the best of any Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed...
...museum topic of the decade,” said lawyer Martha Lufkin, who is a legal correspondent for The Art Newspaper and an expert in recent cases involving claims for the restitution of Nazi-looted art. “It has proved that museums do not occupy an ethically aloof space in owning objects...
...Beware the Perilous Story Line As much as anything, what killed Gore in 2000 was the rap that he was a stiff who couldn't stop telling whoppers. Perceptions are jelling that Edwards is callow, Kerry aloof and patrician, Gephardt yesterday's news. Dean? Well, he's from tiny Vermont...
...wrote an unkind, and unfair, piece about Bonds in Sports Illustrated last year), and by at least some of his teammates. One in Pittsburgh, where he played his first seven years, famously said he would "rather lose without Barry than win with him." The charges: He's aloof, selfish, not concerned about meshing with the team. On the other hand, why does he have to be? Why should likability be a required attribute for Barry Bonds any more than, say, your accountant has to be liked by his co-workers? "I only have three words to say on the baseball...