Word: introvert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final smoke-filled night of competition, there were some 400 casually clad spectators in the blue tiered seats and only two players still in contention: Irving ("The Deacon") Crane and Lou ("Machine Gun") Butera. It was a classic match-up of the tortoise and the hare, introvert against extravert and experience versus enthusiasm...
...University of Chicago, like many another converted introvert, he woke up to performing. Wit is far more often a shield than a lance; " Mike set up a complex of defenses that (TM) made him the fastest tongue in the Midwest. The second fastest was a hostile = chick named Elaine May. It was love I at first fight. "Elaine held me like an autistic child," Nichols remembers. The child bride he had taken at 19 was cast off. Elaine became a surrogate, although, says Mike, "it was much too serious for marriage." And much too funny not to play...
...exactly an extravert himself, Richard Nixon describes his elder daughter Tricia, 24, as the introvert of the family. "She does not like the limelight," he said in a recent interview. Despite her passion for privacy, Tricia handles public appearances with great panache. This month she is featured in a six-page fashion layout accompanying her father's Ladies' Home Journal interview, and shares the center fold with her sister Julie in Vogue. She led millions of television viewers on a tour of the White House living quarters, displaying an enviable stage presence as she showed off family mementos...