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His "Donnie" is cagey and recessive, and when he reverts to Joe Pistone, he doesn't relax--he gets wiry, as if he needs to discharge all his tension.
Thus, my father's rural family of farmers is thin and wiry, while the elders in my mother's urban clan of higher caste and wealthier stock are as plump as can be.
In a small office in the West Wing of the White House, next to Press Secretary Mike McCurry, sits an intense, wiry political operative named Rahm Emanuel.
Here, he curls his body into a sneer, and he's probably the only white man in movies who's wiry enough to trounce a bunch of black guys on a basketball court and not leave the audience snickering in incredulity.
Then again, I heard similar effusions from a high official--Jim Warmke, a wiry, sun-burnished old guy in a mustard-colored Western suit who serves as "secretary of commerce and trade" for the Branch McLarian remnant.