Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resolution of these alarming possibilities rests in large part in the hands of two French-speaking Quebecois: Canada's aloof, intellectual Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 58, and passionate, populist Quebec Premier René Lévesque (pronounced...
Because so much of this action will be dominated by the Senate, its dour and aloof majority leader, Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia, 60, will become the most important power broker in Congress. The last session belonged to bluff Speaker Tip O'Neill, who worked closely with the inexperienced President and his aides, patiently teaching them how to get along with the people on Capitol Hill. O'Neill took charge of Administration measures and pushed many of them through the House, including the energy bill, which whipped through with few changes?only...
...Tavianis' film-making techniques remain daring throughout, but Padre Padrone's style finally proves to be not only the movie's principal virtue but its undoing. The directors are too coldly rigorous in their efforts to remain aloof from the emotional content of their story: they place so large an intellectual distance between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais...
Personally, Burns is by turns aloof and avuncular, pompous and friendly. Few Washington officials stayed further away from the press, or at the same time had more written about them. Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under...
Even with all these signs of renewed contacts, however, Nixon still appears to lead the life of a voluntary exile. The former president continues to refuse all requests for interviews by the press, even from old media friends, Price says. Nixon also remains aloof from the San Clemente community that surrounds La Casa Pacifica. "He just doesn't go down to the corner drug store," Price adds...