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...most likely candidate is White House Counsel Robert Lipshutz, who at 55 is the Methuselah of the West Wing. With a calm and deliberate manner -sharply different from the laid-back informality of the other Georgians-he presides at the daily 8 a.m. senior staff meetings and mediates when other aides differ. Before going to Washington, he was a highly successful lawyer and a pillar of Atlanta's Jewish community. He began advising Carter in 1966 and served as his campaign treasurer...
...Laid-Back Lives. With his dark suits and white shirts, Carney's character could not be more conspicuously out of place in modern Los Angeles. Then there is the glaring contrast between his tough, rational practicality of mind and the laid-back characters he keeps en countering. How, one wonders, will this cultural laggard cope with them? And even if he catches their drift, what if they get tough with him? He suggests a physical fragility that may not permit him to put enough muscle behind his hard-working mouth. There's good suspense here, the kind that...
While the game is obviously grueling and intensely competitive for players on the field, Crimson players yesterday stressed the easy-going, "laid-back" nature of the game, citing the fact that ultimate frisbee is a "gentlemen's game," played without official referees...
...junior who attended the event last May recalled it as having been "a really calm, really laid-back day, with lots of people just lying out on the grass, milling around on the drive, playing football and selling food and things...
...flamboyant, articulate Margo St. James during one of her frequent coast-to-coast speaking and organizing tours. COYOTE's director is optimistic that her idea will catch on throughout the country, although she quickly admits that the East is more "tight-assed" on the issue than the "mellow, laid-back" West Coast. The prostitute community has responded readily to COYOTE's call; "I feel we have a real solidarity going," St. James says. Grinning she told me: "It takes about two minutes to politicize a hooker...