Word: skittishness
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Fonda, uncommonly relaxed, makes a good Skelton, and his frequent screen crony Gates is properly confounding and skittish as Dance. Almost everyone else in the cast (excepting the fetching Margot Kidder) was apparently encouraged to play descending levels of hysteria...
...Nobody feels secure," explained John Carr, acting manager at O'Hare. "We're skittish about everything. We are doing everything we can with our experience and background -but just what are you looking...
...found its investigative capabilities hampered by congressional scrutiny of possible abuses by the CIA and FBI. Forced to be more sensitive to the civil rights of citizens, it pruned its list of potentially violent Americans from 47,000 to the present 38,000. Some agents are said to be skittish of placing a suspect under surveillance, fearing the repercussions of being overzealous. At the same time, however, the Service is now being urged to clamp a tighter aegis over the President. "With criticism coming from both sides," Director Knight asked recently, "how are we to know where to strike...
Meanwhile, life at San Clemente is far from spartan. Nixon has 33 Secret Service agents assigned to his protection. He is skittish about security, and his staff has complained-incorrectly-that Lady Bird Johnson has more guards (she has a dozen at most). When a news photographer snapped him with a telephoto lens from the distant window of a neighboring house, Nixon changed the route he takes to his office. "If they can get me with a telephoto lens, they can do the same with a scope on a rifle," he told aides. "I'm not going that...
...Galloway's Joan is casually approachable in precisely this way. What Galloway does not project is any hint of spirituality or vulnerability. Perhaps the din of forensic rhetoric that dominates this production prevents her from hearing any inner voices. Tom Kneebone makes of the Dauphin a mixture of skittish cravenness and caustic venom, while William Needles' inquisitor is magisterially forbidding. The rest of the cast act like shrill contenders in a debating contest, but that may stem in part from George Bernard Shaw the street-corner agitator...