Word: extravert
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...close friends, but miles apart in temperament. Extravert Rauschenberg is now touring Japan with the Merce Cunningham ballet, for which he whips up a spontaneous stage set a night out of the jetsam of commercial products. More reticent, Jasper Johns plays the position of a mandarin: his aim is to make art about art. In his beach house on Edisto Island, S.C., and his Riverside Drive penthouse in Manhattan, Johns surrounds himself with art works of his friends, from Marcel Duchamp's Dada gimcracks to Andy Warhol's soup boxes, which he uses in lieu of extra furniture...
...hero, Seymour Rosenthal (Jason Robards Jr.), is busy soul-rinsing the filthy millions he inherited from his philistine movie-magnate father. Seymour has established a foundation to give grants to needy and worthy writers. Painfully diffident, Seymour has all but turned the running of the foundation over to an extravert pal from Yale days, self-interested Charles Taney (Ralph Meeker), who would rather down a Scotch than lift a book...
...first prosecution witnesses, Police Reporter John Rutledge of the Dallas Morning News, testified that Ruby was "a loudmouthed extravert" who loved to strut wherever there was big action. Rutledge said that he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least three times on the night of Nov. 22, after Oswald had been arrested. Ruby was familiar with the place; he always liked to hang around with cops. Wielding pad and pencil, he had slipped past a police guard among surging newsmen. "He was explaining to members of the press from out of state who everybody was," said Rutledge. "Somebody would come...
...four-time (1942-46) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, savvy adviser and special envoy (to Latin America, Russia, the Middle East) for three U.S. Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes to the point that even the once-rejected The Moon Is Blue...
...tall, coldly handsome Swedish aviator was a familiar figure on the Washington cocktail circuit. As Swedish air attache from 1952 to 1957, he impressed one U.S. Air Force general as "easy and outgoing, an extravert who got along very well." West Pointers found him "spoony"-meaning suave. He played a cool, quiet game of golf at the Army-Navy Club, his balding, white-fringed head bent over his putter as generals and admirals chatted...