Word: rumpledness
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Clayburgh lacks whatever rumpled charm Matthau manages to muster. She builds her few funny lines into heavy-handed moral treatises that collapse under their own weight.
He was typecast for the role of European professor: hair askew, glasses perched precariously on nose, rumpled suit flecked with bits of tobacco from an omnipresent pipe. At the University of Basel, where he taught for 27 years, students adored him. But amiable Karl Barth was anything but indulgent when...
A. Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them."
While most Americans were enjoying fun and fireworks on the Fourth of July weekend, teams of executives from Conoco Inc. and Du Pont and Co. had forsaken friends and family to work almost round the clock on the biggest merger in U.S. corporate history. Du Pont, the largest U.S. producer...
Then too, one writes a letter simply to say something well, since so little is ever said well in normal conversation. A love letter may not be quite as satisfying as a love affair, but it requires a higher form of invention. The grandiloquent similes of which love letters are...