Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss Dobson always takes the initiative and is indisputably at the epicenter of the action. The leading man, Bernie Casey, is trotted out for a little sentiment and sex appeal only when a romantic interlude is needed. Casey handles his role of sex object and minor plot tool with aplomb and a certain bemusement. Miss Dobson is beautiful, with the kind of long (6 ft. 2 in.), easily gratifying symmetry that makes words like statuesque seem puny. It is also gratifying that, unlike most former models, when she recites lines, she achieves a measure of verisimilitude, and once...
...muster as clean a logic when pitted against him. He would retreat to a citadel of rationality and leave her flailing outside with futile goading and gadfly jabbing. Frustrated by her powerlessness, she could only shout. And I'd blame her as peacebreaker when it was his cool male aplomb that had subtly rendered...
...late summer, when Watergate proved to have little impact on the campaign and the President's re-election was assured, Magruder recovered his aplomb. Even so, he had been compromised. Because his name had cropped up in connection with the breakin, Haldeman told him that no big White House job was available. If he faced Senate confirmation, he was sure to be grilled about G.O.P. campaign tactics. A special post was created for him at the Commerce Department. From there it was all downhill, as the Watergate investigation gathered momentum and revealed that Magruder had been lying when...
...White to have Lion just freak out; he must grow blank and rigid right on the stone paws of a lion that decorates a Detroit fountain. Director Schatzberg (The Panic in Needle Park, Puzzle of a Downfall Child) bats out these sorry epiphanies and maudlin metaphors with the eager aplomb of a rookie swatting fungoes...
...people, his Aunt Mema, judges, cops, and cartoon fantasies of Bruce's fertile mind. Coy, but too deadpan when she first appears, Shelley Thompson develops her role as Lenny's wife so that we hear the crack in her voice at the end as real distress. Ms. Thompson's aplomb in playing most of Act I in tassled pasties and G string was part of the Brucian sophistication of the whole production--a self-confidence unusual on a Harvard stage. With the same sharp style that Franken displays as he switches accents in spinning out dialogue, the other members...