Word: aloofness
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...possibilities of caricature and farce. The play's irreverence is accountable to no one perhaps except itself. As we would expect, Jackie rises above the outright madness and sordidness surrounding her; and it is one of the show's triumphs that this is plausible. Throughout she has remained somewhat aloof in an inaccessible world, protected by her acute moral sense...
...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...