Word: demeanors
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Lowell House roommate Roy Sinai '87 describes Guterman's casual demeanor. "Larry," says Sinai, "takes his work and his play very seriously, but he's never serious. his whole attitude is very relaxed. Even in the most horrible of nightmare situations he won't get too worked up about anything. And I can always relax in his company, just sit on his bed and talk." To this, Guterman pipes in, "We like to play nude nerf basketball in front of the Lowell courtyard at night...
...public manner, and sometimes his personal demeanor, seemed designed to keep secrets. He mumbled and seemed to bumble, and wherever he worked in his dozen years as a top federal official, his desk and even his clothes suggested a mindless disarray. When the Tower commission tried to find out why a memo Casey had written about the Iran-contra affair never reached the White House, his aide's explanation seemed almost plausible: Casey had put it in the wrong...
...face of Slotnick's guerrilla tactics, Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples pressed on with the quiet demeanor of a man who believes that the facts and Goetz's own words will lead inescapably to a conviction. At midweek Waples played a two-hour tape recording made by the detectives who questioned Goetz when he surrendered to them in Concord, N.H. In it, Goetz said the four "wanted to play with me, like a cat plays with a mouse" -- before he assumed a shooter's stance and methodically emptied his pistol at his tormentors. "I know this sounds horrible," he said...
...announcing that he was "throwing my helmet into the ring" for the 1988 G.O.P. nomination. At his debut press conference in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, a genial Haig laughed off a question about his pugnacity by saying, "Inside this exterior of militant, turf-conscious, excessively ambitious demeanor there's a heart as big as all outdoors." Later, snipping a ribbon to open his Manchester, N.H., headquarters, he cracked, "I'm used to a bayonet, but today I have golden scissors...
...earned by doing Vogue fashion spreads in France, he made a picture-taking trip to New York in 1954, equipped with both the expatriate's eye for its psychic stresses and the native's complicity in them. Without resorting to the bizarre, he got the profoundly unsettled, the unearthly demeanor of sidewalk crowds, the implacability of children at play...