Word: aloof
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...home with his wife and in his office, as well as on the football field." Leifer found him a very private man, but surprisingly cooperative. "He even allowed me to shoot him in front of the bench, where no one is usually permitted. From a distance, he seems aloof, uninvolved. It is only from my close-in vantage point that I could see how carefully he controls the game. He makes all the important calls and every key substitution." The assignment, though, involved one major frustration. Says Leifer: "I like football, but I spent many games, including last season...
...standing bare-chested in a soccer stadium. Once in office, he even invited garbage collectors to dinner at the Elysee Palace and once a month staged a televised meal with an "average French family" at their home. But that populist touch has now all but vanished. Today he is aloof, unabashedly aristocratic, and fashions himself a closet literary critic with a passion for Guy de Maupassant. He has learned to manipulate the constitution and the press to serve his interests, and today projects an almost frigid aura of statesmanship. Giscard now practices with atavistic veracity de Gaulle's most imperial...
...complete. No sooner had workers on the Baltic coast and most other regions returned to their jobs than the scattered coal miners' strikes in Silesia mushroomed into a new potential crisis. Among Poland's best paid and most coddled workers, the miners had remained aloof from the riots of 1970 and 1976. Their burgeoning unrest last week was all the more alarming to Warsaw since coal and lignite provide 85% of Poland's energy and 15% of its hard-currency export earnings. The upheaval was also a personal blow to ex-Miner Gierek, whose birthplace and original...
...President, his formal endorsement was brief ("I will support and work for the re-election of President Carter"), his ritual appearance with Carter on the rostrum after the acceptance speech Thursday night was perfunctory ?even strained?and his expression on that traditionally happy occasion was reserved and aloof...
Will Kennedy and his admirers be similarly aloof during the campaign? That was the key question the convention did not answer. It was not a rancorous gathering, certainly not by the standards of such Democratic donnybrooks as those of 1948 and 1968. Indeed, it mildly disappointed some Reagan aides who had been hoping for an angry and divisive brawl. Only during the opening-night rules debate did Carter and Kennedy partisans exchange catcalls. The seemingly endless platform arguments that followed were conducted with a fair show of civility by speakers who rarely stirred passion, or even attention...