Word: rumpledness
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But wait! There on the tarmac stood the rumpled figure of Ralph Roberts, 74, and his natty son Brian, 35, who controlled the Comcast cable-TV company and were partners with Diller in QVC. Known as straight-arrow businessmen in a rough-and-tumble industry, the Robertses hated the merger...
Part of Bill's secret was that he rarely did fewer than two things at once. In meetings he opened his mail while discoursing on story ideas. When he went to lunch with a co-worker, he often took a book, so as to utilize any precious moments when his...
RETIRING. CHARLES KURALT, 59, TV journalist; as CBS News Sunday Morning commentator; in New York City. The rumpled visage and rumbling voice of Charles Kuralt took the Sunday Morning helm in January 1979; he had already won acclaim for his "On the Road" segments on CBS's Evening News, in...
Aspin's problems had as much to do with his lumpish style as his policy positions. Rather than narrowing the cultural gap between the Oval Office and the war rooms, Aspin seemed to symbolize it. To the creased uniforms at the Pentagon, Aspin's rumpled suits and looping, ruminative pronouncements...
The effects of Deng's economic revolution are astounding. In Mao's time, leveling was the rule, and everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed...