Word: haggardly
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...Longworth that he looked "like the bridegroom on a wedding cake." In 1960 Richard Nixon's narrow loss to John Kennedy was greatly influenced by the scenes from that famous first televised debate. Nixon was recovering from a staph infection, and his gray visage was transmogrified into a haggard, glowering, shifty-eyed mask by the same cameras that broadcast a fresh, vigorous Kennedy. Nixon learned the lesson and in his second race, as Joe McGinniss documents in The Selling of the President, he paid much attention to such minutiae as makeup and stage gestures. Said the candidate...
...carry their quiet effect and chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...
...Coughlin case is a recognition of all that. Prosecutor Kirby notes a "truly remarkable change" in Coughlin. Last June he was "very haggard, confused, worn out"; last week he was "alert, even jovial at times...
...desperate last-minute appeal somehow symbolized the whole tumultuous campaign year. There, in a 30-second television commercial, was the usually dapper and composed Senator Charles Percy of Illinois looking haggard and close to tears. Staring straight into the camera, the onetime presidential aspirant implored millions of unseen viewers: "I got your message and you're right. Washington has gone overboard, and I'm sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your priorities are mine too. Stop the waste. Cut the spending...
Strange to say, Willie's luck improved when his Nashville house burned down in 1972. After plunging through the flames to retrieve his stash of marijuana, he headed again for Texas. There, says Merle Haggard, an admiring colleague, "Willie took his own band and a case of beer and sat down to try to create things." He did so by following his usual rules-that is, none. "Nothing works every time," Willie says. "Everything has to stand on its own. I don't try to limit my thoughts in music. Everything I do is by feel...