Schwarzkopf, dubbed "Stormin' Norman" by his troops because of his reported temper, captured the public's imagination with his plain, frank talk about the war's progress.
The Soviet legend, now with a sheen of green copper oxidizing his plain suit, has a flower in his hand, as though he is offering it to his wife.
But his plain-talking style, his popularity among the middle classes who feel their pockets squeezed and his frequent spats with President Jacques Chirac have all let him project an image that sets him apart from the elite.
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At one time he had tried to make his meaning plain to his fellow-mortals by gesture and by sound.
Harry Reid, the Democrats' leader in the Senate, did not explicitly repudiate Mr Obama's reference to the 1967 borders, but made his displeasure plain.
The Bavarian, who has so far backed the bail-outs, has made plain his mounting impatience.
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And his meaning is plain: any monkey-business to stop him winning, and he might walk out.
Thus, they said, it was imperative for Mr Bush to make plain his concerns at the summit.
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He sent out a bunch of letters and made pretty plain his agenda as the chairman of that committee.
So also in matters of royal style: Alexander mixed his purple with plain white cloth, avoiding the temptation to go whole-hog despot.
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His exhaustion was plain as he tried to imagine paying for it.
Mr Mujica is known for his informal and plain-speaking style, and has said that he models himself on former Brazilian president Lula Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-leaning former trade unionist known for a centrist approach.
His mild-mannered and plain-spoken style, combined with his instinctive cultural conservatism, will make it harder for the Republicans to present the Democratic Party as the tool of bossy people from the east coast or the west.
Williams had also been careful to conduct community meetings (more than 150 in all) to explain his austerity measures in plain language.
As Mr Greenspan made plain in his speech, an economic slowdown is what the Fed has been aiming to achieve by raising interest rates six times in the past 18 months.
For one, his success makes it very plain that America remains the Land of Opportunity.
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His real aim is less plain: is he serious, bluffing or hoping to negotiate some kind of deal?
And he's buried there in Ketchum, his grave marked by a plain granite slab and, Johnson notes, a carefully placed bottle of Jack Daniels.
In every case it turns out that the transformative leader is just plain smarter than his peers but is also a person of great personal courage and conviction.
On February 4th Mr Diallo, a young Guinean with no criminal record, was challenged outside his apartment building by four plain-clothes police officers, looking for a rape suspect.
His body was carried in a plain black coffin and placed in a large stone grave.
As well as adorning plain white plimsolls with his own colorful creations, Duffy lets his customers send him their own graphics, which he turns into a design for them.
Compared to Greenspan's restrained, often-cryptic assessments of the economy, Bernanke's three-year tenure as a Fed governor, from 2002 until last May, has shown him to be both outspoken and plain-spoken with his views on inflation and the economy.
Savile used his celebrity to "hide in plain sight" as he opportunistically preyed on the children and young people with whom he came into contact as he presented BBC children's show "Jim'll Fix It" and music show "Top of the Pops, " the report said.
The plain-talking Lancastrian wanted his officers to regard him as a copper first, rather than a politician.
While the company is saying very little about Jobs' health, his appearance at public events makes it plain he has been unwell for at least a year.
Still, many of us prefer the Walton plain of 1653, before his advancing years brought with them garrulity and increasingly overt piety, even in his own later editions.
Shattered by his friend's sudden and violent death, an increasingly resolute Mehmet places Berzan's corpse into a plain wooden coffin and vows to bury him in his native village, near the Iraqi border.
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