Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars are as engaging as the director demands. Morgan, here returning to the screen after an eight-year absence, makes the chic middle-aged murder suspect an aloof yet touching figure: she always retains her bourgeois hauteur, but we see the pain of her predict ament in the slight flickering of her large blue eyes. Reggiani is a delight. With his hound-dog face and wry manner, he is every bit as amusingly world-weary as Happy New Year's hero, Lino Ven tura. No wonder all the other characters openly adore...
...this classic, covering like the South Seas (where a bored Rita Hayworth and her brilliant, embittered husband spend their money) what O'Hara himself calls the carnivorous sharks below. Shark fights serve as metaphor for the cynical, sordid goings' on between the lawyer, his berserk business partner and the aloof, gorgeous Hayworth. Welles, despite himself, gets caught up in the carnage, dragged in by unrequited adoration for Hayworth, a nose for adventure, a soul filled with romanticism and nothing particularly better to do. The denouement of the murder mystery is as subtle and complex...
...United Nations earlier this month, members of Soviet Diplomat Arkadi Shevchenko's staff were astonished when their ordinarily aloof, impersonal boss confided that he had a grievous family worry: his mother-in-law was so ill that he had to fly home to Moscow. Summoning security guards, Shevchenko ordered his private office sealed. Then the stooped, round-faced Under Secretary-General strolled out of U.N. headquarters in Manhattan and disappeared...
...coach were unimpressive. "I never coached a day in my life," he says. "But basketball goes through cycles. When I came in, they were looking for college coaches. Now it's younger coaches who can possibly communicate and understand the players a little better." While Shue remained aloof from his players, Cunningham, who is only 34 and had played with or against most of his new charges, was already one of the boys. Says McGinnis: "Billy came in and started hugging us and telling us how much he liked us. He'd stop by the house, or give...
...stockholders after being nominated by a management committee. Last October, one stockholder-chosen director, Julian Zimmerman, a mortgage banker who was head of the Federal Housing Administration under President Eisenhower, called for Hunter's resignation on the grounds that Fannie Mae's management had grown aloof and unresponsive to both its own board and the Government. In November a motion to censure Hunter barely lost, by an 8 to 6 vote...