Word: glumly
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...hear straight arguments from his aides. An avuncular figure, warm and generous to a fault, Reagan projects a peculiar quality of vulnerability. The White House staff and Cabinet members worry deeply when they have to tell the boss he is in trouble. One aide fretted for hours about the glum presentation that he was to make at one budget session. "I finally said the hell with it," he reports. "I decided if I couldn't tell it to him straight, I shouldn't be working here." Reagan was not visibly affected, but the aide still fears that...
...portrayer of loners is himself a loner who likes to be with people, but who says he has few friends. His pal Hotchner says that during an unproductive period in the late '70s, Newman seemed least glum bobbing around with him on Long Island Sound in a fishing boat they call Cocadetoro (in fractured Spanish, bullcrap). His bawdiness can be spectacular; and, says Susan, she and her sisters are constantly heading off raunchy stories with not-now-Dad looks flashed across the room. After years of complaining that Robert Altman's cheap white wine tasted like goat...
Salomon, 27, reportedly repaid the prince's hospitality by recounting fond recollections of her sojourn like this nugget: "Everyone was sitting around the swimming pool looking glum, when Andrew suddenly grabbed Koo and ripped off her bathing suit. Then he went to another girl and pulled at hers." Among her other dispatches from the isle of Mustique: the prince running around in the buff and attempting to jam a live lobster down the bathing suit of a young lady. Prince Charles, 33, meanwhile, is plagued by rumors about a "royal tiff" with his wife Diana, 21. Newspapers, after apparently...
...Outside of the formal discussions, I met with friends and found that the Soviets are very glum," Doty said this week. "They already have an accumulation of many problems; plus, they can't do much about them until a successor to Brezhnev comes on the stage...
...unclean, dirty. "We're all looking for someone to love," says a New York woman, a freelance artist. "In this world our chances seem so slim anyway. Then you add herpes and you think, 'Why should anyone want me now?' " A doctor in Amityville, N.Y., says the same glum view has invaded the ranks of teenage herpes sufferers, who come into his office, cry and say, "No one will ever want to marry...