Word: aloofness
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...small shop in New York City. Before long he was selling his line to Bergdorf Goodman. Not your typical fashion prince, Kors calls himself a T-shirt-and-jeans kind of guy--a bit, you might even say, like Ralph and Calvin--and is more gossipy gadabout than aloof designer. He is known for leading his ladies-who-lunch customers into the fitting room and genially telling them what to wear...
...could not go home again. Concludes McCrum, literary editor of Britain's The Observer: "The Second World War finished Wodehouse." Not quite. He found a new home and, eventually, even greater fame after the war. As McCrum also notes, Wodehouse was every inch the Edwardian: calm in a crisis, aloof but generous (he supported an old school chum for years), quietly productive (he could pound out a novel's first draft in days), and fit as an oak (thanks to daily calisthenics). Many of those qualities can be traced to Wodehouse's Woosterish upbringing. A descendant of Norfolk nobility, including...
...with a fixed, unblinking gaze and a curious vocal tic--his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn! Despite his otherworldly demeanor, he is artlessly charming, although he does not make anything resembling small talk. It's not because he's too busy or aloof; you get the impression he doesn't make small talk because he has never heard...
Even in Lowell, where old-timers still resent Kerry's opportunistic first campaign so long ago, they give him credit for improving his human relations. "A lot of people thought he was aloof," says current mayor Armand P. Mercier. "But his staff was always there for us. He didn't let Lowell's needs go by the wayside." During the 1972 race, Mercier was head of the Lowell Housing Authority. Kerry, struggling for local credibility, asked to meet with him. Kerry arrived at Mercier's office more than an hour late, Mercier says, and the first thing...
...Yudhoyono may have an edge for now, but Megawati has the power of the presidency at her disposal, as well as the largest war chest of all the candidates. And although many see the President as an aloof figure who has disappointed her supporters, a few nimble political moves-from cutting taxes to abolishing school fees to reshuffling ministers-could win over plenty of skeptics. "If she starts acting like a leader and makes some strong changes to the economy and the Cabinet," says Umar Juoro, of the Center for Information and Development Studies in Jakarta, "she has a chance...