Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strange and somewhat tribal rallying cry inscribed on the banners of the 1988 campaign: HE'S ONE OF US. For some, the message is mainly regional: Michael Dukakis grandly quaffing a mug of clam chowder upon landing in New Hampshire from Iowa, as he tried to overcome the aloof smugness that seems plastered to his face; Albert Gore whistling Dixie while he waited for Super Tuesday...
...high time that Harvard take steps towards improving undergraduate access to the full range of campus life. Combining the two telephone directories or handing both out to students would be a simple gesture--and it might even begin to counter the image of Harvard as aloof and indifferent to undergraduate concerns...
Creep between the walls as they stand there in a majestic triple salute to the wondrousness of Cabot House. Become one with the ice. Feel its aloof beauty. Touch the knobbly ice surface. Run your numb fingers over...
President Chiang Ching-kuo of Taiwan was so unlike his famous father that he hardly resembled him at all. While Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was wiry, aloof and dictatorial, his son was rotund, jovial and pragmatic. The elder Chiang fielded armies against both the Japanese and Mao Zedong's Communists. The younger, though bearing the nominal rank of general, never saw action on the battlefield. Yet after the Nationalists fled the mainland, it was the son who helped transform the father's defeat into victory. Chiang Ching-kuo's inheritance was the loss of China; when he died last week...
...seemed a corrupted form of one of the earlier models. Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator: instead of an amiable hunk like Reynolds, an incredible hulk, muscle-bound and soul-bare -- Robo-star. Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop II: instead of the wailing bantam Pryor, a strutting rooster, increasingly aloof from his genial gifts. Michael J. Fox in The Secret of My Success: instead of the teen queen, a yuppie pup, too eager to make it, too hungry to charm. He was a scrubbed-up version of the rich preppie Ringwald usually ditched in the last reel...