Word: worrier
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...passage with good-humored civility. Alda is particularly good at examining the male sensibility. Cariou's philanderer is troubled by the directions in which his sexuality has driven him, puzzled by the ways in which marriage has ill used his wife as well as himself. Weston's worrier is rich and touching as it becomes clear that his comic fussings over his diet and his money are a way of raging against the dying of the light. Alda is perhaps hardest on the man he plays, showing that the very characteristic that has made...
Bingham will admit that blown at-bats sometimes rile him excessively, but no one can call him a worrier. If he were a California, "mellow" might even be the word. With the exception of upcoming airplane trips, ("I hate flying," he says earnestly. "I just can't believe something that big can fly."), his lack of definite future plans seems not to bother him at all. He hopes to be drafted by the pros again, but says, "I'm not banking on baseball. I'd love to do it, and at this point I just don't have a contingency...
...currencies that the U.S. can borrow from other countries under long-standing "swap" agreements. Such borrowings permit a country to buy up a specific quantity of its own currency without dipping into official reserves. Blumenthal discussed the plan several times with outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, a longtime worrier about the dollar, while both were vacationing in Florida between Christmas and New Year's, and got Carter's approval before the President left on his sevennation tour; only the timing was left undecided...
Maybe Evans tempo is paced by nervousness--he is a worrier, never content for long periods. He perceives himself as a member of an oppressed group rather than as an individual success story, and that has a lot to do with his propensity to turn around and help others. "I tried all of this talk about things getting better. We are in bad shape. Do you know that 2.8 per cent of the doctors, 1.9 per cent of the lawyers, and 0.6 per cent of the engineers in this country are black? That's why it's so important...
...making Italian potboilers (an Italian producer once hired him by mistake to play a tall, blond soldier) with graphic glee, acting out all the parts as he goes. About his private life he is more reticent. He concedes that he is partly akin to Columbo. "I'm a worrier, I'm not the neatest guy in the world, I'm obstinate-but I'm not as clever as Columbo...