Word: worrier
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...longer the liability for the President that she sometimes was during his first two years in office. In fact, in the past two years she has probably become an outright political plus, winning friends and influencing people. She remains tightly wound, by her own description "a born worrier," but now she has a public and private sure-footedness that she once seemed unable to manage. "I have more self-confidence," she says. A longtime presidential aide agrees. "She has become more of a person in her own right," says the aide, "and no longer just Ronald Reagan's wife...
Deaver's apparent blandness and wry manner make him an inconspicuous figure. But he is demanding, a worrier, and associates watch his moods carefully. He tends to play favorites. "He falls in and out of love with people," says one friend. Deaver professes surprise that no one challenges his judgments at the big scheduling meetings he conducts. But no one wants to cross him. A graduate of San Jose State, he is envious of the Ivy League polish of types like Chief of Staff James Baker, whose skills he admires enormously. He is captivated by the trappings of power...
...have more career opportunities than my generation did, but the economic risks will also be greater. I worry about whether he will gain the skills needed to get ahead in the complex, competitive global economy in which he will grow up." Plainly, Alexander is a long-range thinker, or worrier. Brian is 19 months...
...movie, which was fresh out of the editing room. Ever since he saw the first episode in 1977, Clarke has been hooked on Lucas' special brand of magic. Says he: "Lucas seemed every bit as nervous about Jedi as he was about Star Wars. He is a compulsive worrier, a nonstop perfectionist. Maybe that is why his movies are so good." Clarke spent a day, along with Los Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell, interviewing Lucas and his wife Marcia, an Oscar-winning film editor who helped cut Jedi, at their white Victorian mansion in nearby San Anselmo. Worrell also toured...
...word to describe what goes on. Perhaps not even Bertolt Brecht, who knew the middle class hates to be reminded that its comfortable life is political, could make it interesting. It is a land characterized by the atmosphere of a San Clemente golf club locker room; golf is a worrier's game, inward, concentrated, a matter of inches, invented by the same people who gave us Presbyterianism. It is a land of Jack Daniels and Vietnamese maids, of luxurious home sprinkler systems, of helicopters which hover over the city to catch purse snatchers making their grabs on the main streets...