Word: aloof
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Perhaps, too, the cat, regal and precise, aloof and alone, reflects the preferred-or enforced-situation of the record 23% of American households where single adults dwell. "Cats are a perfect way out of urban alienation," says Dunlop. And behind bars, the cat softens hard-time sentences. Some prisoners at the Lorton Reformatory in Virginia keep up to five cats at once. Says Charles E. ("Itchy") Richardson, 30, who is serving ten to 40 years for burglary: "Cats teach you what some dudes down here can't understand. They give you love. They don't talk back...
...tempting target for the Dutch Communist Party, which tried covertly to infiltrate local chapters. But in 1978, after delegates from Moscow were dispatched to lead a youth march in Amsterdam against the neutron bomb, the Council rebelled. Since then, the church-sponsored group has deliberately held itself aloof from the Communists, although some cooperation does still exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament that there was "not even a scrap of evidence" for allegations that the council...
...good soul, sexually repressed but with a quirky sense of humor, Cara would like nothing better than to move in with Margaret Mary for mutual care and companionship. With aloof hauteur, the widow indicates, as only Hepburn could, that Cara is non-U. Selfish, highhanded, unfeeling, Margaret Mary takes in a different roommate. Robin Bird (Regina Baff), a woman of about 30, is a Brooklyn sparrow with a broken wing. She has been wounded by her husband, who divorced her to turn homosexual. Robin brings out the possessive mother-tyrant in the widow, but in return Margaret Mary goads...
...fought road. This relic of the B-movie studio star has grown to a force of major proportion in the industry, becoming perhaps the only hero for disaffected youth. The years of quickies, westerns, acid, and road movies paid off, creating a unique, vibrant, tenacious, intelligent, self-promoting, humanistic, aloof symbol of the modern age. In his best roles, Nicholson represents order amid chaos. Not in a stilted, dreary, macho way, but in an active, tongue-in-cheek yet soul-wrenching, personally moral way. All those years of hard knocks were the catalyst in his concluding what most of Hollywood...
Revolutionary leadership is a career that can attract only the deeply dedicated. Aloof, pensive, calculating, he took a long view, but he would also insist on achieving...