Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd. Then he made a quick decision: the candidate for mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives aloof from local elections, President Alan Garcia Perez, 37, thereupon ordered microphones and a TV camera installed on a balcony so that he could "spontaneously" welcome a crowd of 50,000 A.P.R.A. supporters at the palace two nights later...
...aging bosses seated at the defense table in the packed federal courtroom in lower Manhattan look harmless enough to be spectators at a Sunday-after noon boccie game. Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno, 75, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family, sits aloof and alone, his left eye red and swollen from surgery. White-haired Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, 73, the alleged Lucchese family chief, is casual in a cardigan and sport shirt. Carmine (Junior) Persico, 53, is the balding, baggy-eyed showman of the trio. Elegant in a black pinstripe suit, a crisp white shirt...
...Pillsbury, the diversified food firm, Wyman from the beginning was tarred by CBS insiders as not mindful of the needs of broadcast television, and of CBS News in particular. As 60 Minutes' Morley Safer put it last week, "He seemed to be not only cold and aloof as far as the news division is concerned, but extremely so as far as the company is concerned...
...aftermath of the resignation, at least one board source said, "I am uncomfortable with what happened." Wyman, said the source, "didn't mend his fences with the board. He was somewhat aloof. The board would hear about important things for the first time at meetings." But overall, in this view, Wyman's record during his tenure was "not sufficient to call for dismissal." At the same time, the change was "really foreordained," given the strong feelings that had arisen between Wyman, Paley and Tisch...
Photojournalists tend to stay aloof from talk about camera aesthetics. Something about dodging gunfire in Beirut seems to discourage ruminations on style -- understandably enough. More to the point, no one who catalogs bloodshed and catastrophe wants to be thought of as one more vendor to the senses. Some news photographers spend half their lives chasing war, so who can blame them if, when they hear the word art, they make for the door...