Word: rumpledness
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Roger Penrose is hardly the sort of man who would normally excite much popular interest, let alone controversy. The shy, somewhat rumpled and unfailingly polite Oxford professor, 58, has spent most of his career spinning theories in the most abstruse areas of mathematics and physics. His contributions to both disciplines...
While Mazowiecki has been a thoughtful and precise leader, Walesa frequently gives the impression of rumpled sartorial and intellectual disorder. Receiving a group of TIME editors two weeks ago in Gdansk in slippers and checked shirt, he made a passionate appeal, laced with colorful metaphors, for Western aid. But when...
The Weinsteins, who look more like rumpled used-car dealers than Armani- outfitted moguls, say their winning knack comes from a cinema-saturated childhood in Queens, N.Y. "One day we saw this amazing movie Truffaut had done about street kids called The 400 Blows, and it spoke to us," recalls...
Unlike the Olympian detachment that is the traditional pose of Washington columnists, Safire projects a rumpled persona far closer to Walter Matthau's than Walter Lippmann's. His clothes are L.L. Bean, not Savile Row. Safire retains the unbuttoned style, the street-smart diction and the wry-not enthusiasms of...
Then again, maybe John Madden, the rumpled gent who whoops the game for CBS, is right about mud. Why not haul a few dozen tons of good, dirty dirt into the Superdome, the way they do for those tractor pulls that ESPN broadcasts at 3 a.m.?