"They didn't care about their appearance (we looked like damn hippies) or their deportment (we fought like sailors)," he recalled, adding that they didn't care about "anything but winning".
It was the opposite of good politics, of behavior befitting a public official, of deportment you'd like to see from the person in charge of prosecuting public officials and regular old citizens caught doing things like, say, driving drunk in the middle of the night.
In his pictures and deportment Cunningham is like a Weegee of fashion, catching an ever-changing world on the wing.
Portman may have taken classes for a few months, but her body-shape, musculature and deportment are nothing like a classical dancer's.
They carry themselves in that born-to-rule kind of way that offends against the democratic instincts of many ordinary voters who have rumbled the centrist ruse: that a certain style of political deportment – looking the part, talking in perfect PR-like soundbites, having opinions sieved through focus groups etc – is what we want from our political leaders.
Such regal deportment evokes the days when grand stars like the Barrymores presided over plays.
He comes over as an engaging eccentric who thought film more real than life, was fascinated by surgery, never discussed matters of motivation with his performers (but, like Hitchcock, took a minute interest in their appearance, deportment and costumes), couldn't decide whether he was a realist or a surrealist, and insisted that what interested him was anxiety rather than fear.
There is a tremendous display of deportment in this head, and the way it is being carried along – very slow-movingly, dromedary-like, we imagine – on this neck, with such care.
They looked instead, at least to this alien eye, like a superimposed and insincere idea of old Bolshoi swan deportment.
Matthew Castleman smolders as old flame Lovborg, Steve Beall cackles like a villain as the judge and Jewell Robinson brings 19th-century deportment as Aunt Julia, baffled by practically everything this Hedda does.
