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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.
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.
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.
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.