Harbinger

No one would describe Dick Cheney as lean and hungry these days but if you look at some if the early photos (the ones where he has hair) of him in the Washington Post series, he does look determined and serious. The photos (which I can't figure out how to upload or link to) remind me of Caesar's comment to Marc Anthony in Shakespeare's play,

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Act I, Scene 2, The Life and Death of Julius Caesar