Word: shirttails
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...actors' showcases. His camera waits patiently for the smallest behavioral tic or the grandest explosion of dynamite acting. The characters he creates are compulsive talkers, walkers, smokers, prowling the urban nightscape, their lives a cacophonic symphony of desperation, their aggressions spilling out like a Bowery bum's shirttail. Cassavetes encourages openness, improvisation, the primacy of being over performing. An actor prepares, and the moviegoer watches, and Cassavetes approves. He as much as tells his cast: The screen is yours, the script is yours; run with it. For actors trained by such evangelical Methodists as Lee Strasberg, this...
...restless man with a short attention span, Jordan is unable to sit still long, and now he paced the floor restlessly. He was wearing blue tennis shoes and white shorts, his shirttail hanging out. His body is thick and hard, his face tanned from daily jogging and tennis. He hasn't changed much in four years, still frisky, fresh-faced...
Last week, sitting in his long, gold-carpeted office overlooking the Capitol, Schlesinger stoutly rejected criticism of his performance. He had his familiar rumpled look, shirttail out, socks limp over his ankles, but as he got up to stand by the window, his tall, flat body looked powerful. "It's convenient to make me the fall guy," he said sourly. Close friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger...
...specialist in defense economics. A lifelong Republican-but one who nonetheless considers himself an apolitical technocrat-he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and served as assistant budget director, AEC chairman, CIA director and, finally, Secretary of Defense. His trademarks were an ever-present pipe, an ever-flapping shirttail, a rumpled suit and a heavy-handed sarcasm that made him many enemies. Ford fired him last year, because of both his abrasiveness and his skepticism about détente...
...days of infamy, was indicted last week, a harbinger that Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox's vast apparatus is beginning to gather momentum in the courts. The Hughes money given to Bebe Rebozo for the Nixon campaign has an ominous ring. Is this the end of a dirty shirttail that will show one of the world's richest men to be involved in the scandals of this Administration...