Word: introvertible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Introvert and extrovert, they met at the Union freshman year when Peterson spied her seated alone at a table...
...Ninoy turned his home into a kind of 24-hour coffee shop in which the loquacious host and his associates would thrash out tactics through the night, while Cory waited on them. The ceaseless bustle must have placed a considerable strain on the retiring patrician woman. "Cory is an introvert, Ninoy was an extrovert," says Ninoy's favorite sister, Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara. "He thrived on people. She doesn't need them...
Poindexter? Almost unknown outside the Washington Beltway, he is a shy, pipe- smoking introvert who became Reagan's National Security Adviser last December and has tried to remain out of public view ever since. Mostly, he has succeeded. A Navy vice admiral still on active duty, Poindexter, 49, sees his role in a limited way: as a staff officer, skillfully condensing the arguments of the quarreling Cabinet secretaries and their underlings, then presenting the various action options to the President. Unlike Henry Kissinger under Nixon and Ford and, to a slightly lesser degree, Zbigniew Brzezinski under Carter, Poindexter does...
...traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion. An introvert who doesn't know anybody can feel comfortably occupied watching a chef. Each food station around the reception room creates an environment. The sushi bar. Or the taco bar. Or fettucini Alfredo. There's drama, action in front of the guest...
...platform. His position in the sport is so proprietary that when a Soviet diver was fatally injured attempting a reverse 3½ tuck at a meet last summer, Louganis felt personally responsible for "pushing people to do these dives." It is not a precarious dive to Louganis, a sensitive introvert whose fear of heights relents only "when there's water underneath...