Word: gait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said she is content with being a 19th century wife to a workaholic husband. When they attend formal dinners, Clark looks uncomfortable in his black tie and slightly dazzled by the famous personalities eager to engage him in small talk. He speaks slowly and has a deliberate gait, and somehow seems out of place in fast-talking Washington. His features often convey puzzled concentration, and he likes to foster the idea that he yearns to return to raise Herefords and barley on his 888-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif, which is being run by his three oldest...
...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
...Andropov came in through a side door, accompanied by Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Vasili Kuznetsov, the new Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision...
...Harvard track team has just upset Northeastern to conclude its regular season. Leading the pack of jubilant runners in the customary victory lap, one member--decked out in his usual red sweat suit--suddenly sprints ahead and is the first to cross the finish line. His gait is as smooth and quick as that of those he has left behind: only his grey hair betrays the fact that he is no college student, but a man ready for retirement at the ages...
John Bottoms and Francois de la Giroday deliver arresting, finely tuned performances. De la Giroday's sardonic antics with the mounds of toast his drunken, bitter humor, and his ability to shift gears--to portray both a self-possessed success and a collapsed failure--are outstanding. Bottoms' stooped, hulking gait and his combination of down-dirty badness and querulous insecurity breathe life into a difficult and confusing character. He recalls Henry Fonda at his most cranky in On Golden Pond in his ornery refusal to admit that he is pleased by something done for him, his obstinate pessimism, his scorn...