Word: rumpledness
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Elliott, the virtual personification of rumpled Englishness, gives the same endearing performance he did as the dad in A Room with a view. Unfortunately, Elliott's character dies of a heart attack 45 minutes into the picture, leaving Byrne and a mediocre, no-name cast to carry the balance.
He had a three-day growth of beard and was still wearing the rumpled tan trousers he had on when arrested 13 days earlier. But Nicholas Daniloff was < ebullient, witty and still possessed of his reporter's instinct for summarizing a story. As the Cadillac carrying him from Moscow's...
In the absence of strong ideological differences, images have become important: D'Amico's campaign has presented him as the rumpled, savvy pol with working-class roots and a common touch. Murphy plays the polished administrator, decisive and effective in the practice of a traditionally male profession.
Last week's confirmation hearings must have seemed an all-too-familiar nightmare to William Rehnquist, President Reagan's nominee to be Chief Justice, who first went through this particular mill in 1971 when he was initially nominated to the Supreme Court. Even with a redoubtable conservative ally, North Carolina...
Witty and relaxed, Rehnquist gets on well with the other Justices and their staffs. Clerks from other chambers sometimes invite him out to a local pub for beer and burgers, and he invites his former clerks to his house in Arlington to challenge them at croquet. A rumpled dresser, he...