Word: stoops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monroe, where his father was both police and fire chief, Helms retains his country style. His frequent response to an inquiry about how he is doing is "Well enough to take some chicken broth." He stands at 6 ft. 2 in., with a gangly frame that is slightly stoop-shouldered. He walks like a sailor, which he once was, elbows extended and his legs spread as he lopes along. He has a small mouth that gives him a puckish look, even though, at 59, his hair is thinning and his chin has doubled. His round brown eyes and arched eyebrows...
...Carl he saw Frank Perdue on the bus; Carl would tell Bob he nearly ran Rod McKuen down in front of Sans Souci, and so on. I guess it was just hard for me to understand how two people as as sensitive and wonderful as Carl and Bobby could stoop to such silliness...
...caution, even determination. "She's reserved rather than shy," reports a former schoolmate. "She's got her own ideas, and she isn't easily swayed by what people say. She's got a lot of go in her." Diana did develop a kind of protective stoop. Says an old friend: "She never used to put her head down. She was literally ducking the press...
...life of their own." That's the kind of banality Nabokov might put into the mouths of one of his caricatured academics; if only it were true about Donald Sutherland's Humbert Humbert. Albee draws Nabokov's nymphet-lover as an unsympathetic egotist; Sutherland act it as the stoop shouldered, pedantic stereotype of an child-molester. And he pronounces his lines--even those which Albee has mercifully lifted verbatim from the novel--as though someone has tried to wash out his mouth with soap and left a piece of the bar in: a muffled monotony...
Almost every normal transition has provided a preview of the tone and method of the new Administration. Kennedy formed his Government in the sagging elegance of his Georgetown home and made casual announcements about his appointees from the frigid front stoop. Nixon installed himself on the 39th floor of New York City's majestic Hotel Pierre, and, as he chose the members of his Administration, the world waited far below...