Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been in office 12 years, and the nicest way to put it is that he's been aloof," Bozzotto says...
...colleagues found him personally aloof, they also knew no one worked harder to ease their lives, rescheduling votes around fund raisers, personal trips, the school play. Dole liked to hold court in the cloakroom, ear to the ground, counting votes, making wisecracks. Larry Pressler, an occasionally clueless South Dakotan, was a favorite target. Dole once came down to the Senate well during a vote and said out loud, so everyone could hear, "Don't know which way to go on this one. How did Pressler vote?" Even the clerks would start to laugh. But then it would be Dole...
...books that dip into the seemingly bottomless well of Kennedy effluvia. Despite enough volumes about the clan to line a presidential library, no biographer until now had chosen to focus so explicitly on the relationship between the fun-loving, womanizing John Kennedy and the more aloof Jackie--perhaps no one dared do so until Jackie was safely in her grave. But though both Christopher Andersen's Jack and Jackie: Portrait of an American Marriage (Morrow; $24) and Edward Klein's All Too Human: The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy (Pocket Books; $23) purport to be about the marriage...
...stretching to say that there is a little bit of Ross Perot in Dick Lamm: arrogance, elitism, a close personal identification with Paul Revere. The Coloradan can be "aloof and unforgiving," concedes brother Tom, a lawyer in Boulder, Colorado. "He is driven by ideas, not what others think of him." For at least this brief moment, Lamm has claimed the spotlight. But he will soon be competing not just with Perot but also with the Olympics and then the major-party conventions for airtime and oxygen. And when voters do take a look, just about everyone will find something...
...also turns out to be one of those energetic sorts who seem much taller. "I'm a happy person by nature. I'm spunky," she says. "And don't let me eat presweetened cereal, or it's over." But she also confides: "I'm kind of private, but not aloof. I just like being by myself; I don't open up a lot of times to people...