Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, on television, for every image of a boat navigating a West Coast street or a floating bathtub full of paddling victims, there was that familiar combative California aplomb, survivors telling interviewers the good still far outweighed the bad. A father of two young boys, asked flatly why he and his family stuck around, said, "Well, we had a beautiful summer." A year ago, author Kevin Starr, responding to essentially the same question after the L.A. quake, said, "Disaster is not an enduring discomfort -- cold weather is an enduring discomfort...
DelBanco and Stone also handle their roles with aplomb. They render their relationship as brother and sister instantly believable; the various strains Anna's disease and her promiscuity put on this relationship are conveyed with delicacy and subtlety. Their rapport, especially when they reminisce about their childhood closeness, rings touchingly true, and is especially poignant in a play dedicated to Vogel's own lost bother. But Carl and Anna are neither melodramatic nor cliched. Amid the kaleidoscopic, surreal happenings of Vogel's plot, one never loses a sense of these characters' essential normality and love for each other...
...week -- and less than 48 hours from deadline -- she was asked to oversee our late-breaking cover story on Susan Smith, the young South Carolina mother accused of murdering her children. It was an assignment whose challenge amounted almost to hazing, but Aitken brought it off with skill and aplomb...
...turns out, was abandoned by her husband with two young children. Along for the ride is Mollic's 12-year-old son, Paris (Chris Terrio), who struggles with the complexities of his twisted family life. McCullers does not handle the positive and negative elements of these characters with aplomb and the audience feels itself jerked from high to low with each scene...
...only constant in the whole mess is Charlie Watts' solid, reliable drumming. Never flashy but never too understated, Watts still brings it home with aplomb. Then again, he's never had an extended solo in his whole Stones career. Maybe those jazzy side projects have helped him to stay the course...