Word: klutz
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...graceless campaigner, a successful salesman who was liked but not well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally bites...
...Plains, Allen seems at home everywhere. On Home Improvement he plays Tim Taylor, a father of three and host of a TV fix-it show. Tim is a guy's guy who gets excited about playing with power drills and rewiring the dishwasher; yet he's something of a klutz around the house. It's an old sitcom formula -- Dad as doofus -- but brightened by the sarcastic, surprisingly adult interplay between Tim and his wife (Patricia Richardson) on the subject of maleness and its drawbacks...
...produce convincing "evidence" that Clinton has been "assaulted" more than any previous President when dubious behavior surfaces. But Clinton can take some comfort that he is not alone in suddenly realizing he is high and visible, and his flaws are every night's soap. Remember Jerry Ford the Klutz? And Jimmy Carter's harsh season of invective as the passionless, peanut President...
Meanwhile, Magaziner was making enemies on Capitol Hill, where he was regarded as a political klutz who did more to damage the Clinton case than to help it. At one meeting with Republicans on legislative strategy, Magaziner dismissed such talk as "minutiae." The First Lady was dispatched to the Hill to soothe bruised egos and keep liberals on board. Working closely with West Virginia Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller, Mrs. Clinton would often consult with a dozen lawmakers in person and via telephone. She probed for weak spots in support and likely criticism, but gave nothing away. Leaders of both parties...
...observe two handlers deliver cups of juice. One accidentally spills juice on the floor; the other overturns the cup deliberately. When asked to choose a handler to deliver their next cup of juice, chimps prefer the clumsy person, suggesting that they are aware they are better off with a klutz than with a helper with evil intent. Again, in analogous experiments capuchin monkeys appear to be less shrewd. The animals will, pitiably, continue to put their trust in a human helper who eats rather than delivers their food, even after he or she has stuffed himself 150 times with...