Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accounts, one of the most physically exuberant occupants of the Oval Office. He could sit a visitor down for a morning-long rundown on the intellectual capacity and personal habits of every member of the Senate. He had a grand way of picking his nose, scratching himself and eating food off other people's plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J. whipped a jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled...
...Worse, says Adler, long sections of Kael's writing suffer from lapses in logic and an irritating habit of relying on rhetorical questions to make a point. Adler's evidence: 26 examples gleaned from the book: "Is it just the pompadour or is he wearing a false nose?" "Is it relevant that Bertolucci's father's name was Attilio?" "Where was the director?" "Does the cavalry return?" "Who-him?" Finally, Kael is accused of a tendency to wander, hogging space in the magazine until "other pieces, on which serious intermittent writers had worked for years, were...
...Dick Nixon the grocery clerk became Richard Nixon the politician, the gripes became political sore points. The beefy, "affable if sometimes bumptious" Don with the trademark ski-jump nose was a businessman of questionable ethics, apparently a family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...
...couple of years back, when the summiteers met in Bonn, Jimmy Carter smiled. Little else. Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt sat down the table from the U.S. President and swirled Coca-Cola around in his wine glass and looked with contempt along his tilted nose at Carter. Schmidt dominated the personalities, France's Valéry Giscard d'Estaing was clearly second, and Carter was down there some place with Britain's jolly James Callaghan, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault, who did not survive Margaret Thatcher's political assault...
...also a tireless advocate of causes, a godfather to young talent, a lobbyist, a fund raiser and a supreme power broker in the music world, albeit a rather puckish, cherubic one. "I've never been able to live in a cocoon," he says. "I have a long buttinsky nose." In Yiddish-one of the six languages he either speaks or understands -the expression is a kochleffl (a stirrer-up of the pot). Even his relaxations are strenuous. Says Leonard Bernstein: "You should play tennis with him some time. My God, the force, the velocity of those balls...