Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their common goal. All cameras converged on one of the least likely duos in cinematic history: Hollywood's Marilyn Monroe and Britain's Sir Laurence Olivier. Together in public for the first time, Marilyn, explosively protruding from a black velvet sheath, and Sir Laurence, with the ironic aplomb of a gentleman accidentally trapped in a powder room, confirmed the fact (TIME, Jan. 30) that they will co-star in a film version of Playwright Terence Rattigan's London stage hit, The Sleeping Prince. Producers: Marilyn and Sir Laurence. Director: Olivier. Breathed Marilyn: "My hope and dream...
...French Riviera," confided the father of the bride. "She went there to make a picture called To Catch a Thief-and look what she came back with." Under the breathless guidance of an M-G-M pressagent, Grace and Rainier posed placidly for the photographers, answered the questions with aplomb-and an occasional assist from the family. When she was asked about her plans for a family, Grace colored prettily and let her mother answer for her: "I should say they will have lots of children." At first, Rainier accepted the questions and pictures serenely, but then the pressing...
...less than their billing: the show is liveliest when it is making fun of show folk, and the Lunts are most delightful when they are capering as hams. The plot also permits them their moments of deft heroics, and some nice dressing-room nonsense as well as drawing-room aplomb...
...Tory pattern of leadership, which is Anglican, Etonian and upper class. He lives modestly in a Belgravia apartment with his young (27) wife, his former secretary whom he married in 1951, and three-year-old daughter; dresses immaculately in Savile Row suits, sports a Foreign Office bowler with aplomb, is supremely sure of himself...
...curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery alarm, Perle, unprepared for an impromptu party, was visited by a horde of uninvited guests-six uniformed cops, two detectives, two alarmed men from the alarm company. Ever the soul of aplomb, ex-Minister to Luxembourg Mesta excb'ned it all, graciously bade a happy holiday to her callers...