Word: aplomb
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This is Clooney doing a De Niro, growing a beard and cocooning himself in flab. The actor must want to prove that his star quality is more than just Cary Grant looks and a stud's sly aplomb. It is. Here he seduces the viewer into looking closer, to catch the eye glint of skeptical intelligence, the interior burden that a samurai for the CIA bears with weary grace, and for reasons he may have forgotten or never known...
...cast succeeds in interpreting the strange momentum of the play, blending the mundane, the theatrical and the fantastic without ever losing any element. Particularly impressive is Lloyd-Bollard as Kat, who simultaneously conveys cruelty, humor, sexiness, and vulnerability with great energy and aplomb, making the second scene the highlight of the play...
...felt as though I was in a parallel universe, much like a Cantabrigian, live-theater re-enactment of “Labyrinth,” starring David Bowie. TFs that I thought were gay would strangely have wives. Men in scarves smoked cigarettes with a Dorothy Parker-esque aplomb outside the Barker Center. And despite its lack of all food products, Café Pamplona was constantly mobbed. The normal laws of physics did not seem to apply.Then, I realized that metrosexuality was afoot. For the uninitiated, allow me to offer this brief definition of the phenomenon: Metrosexuality...
...Food Chocolate and Zucchini www.chocolateandzucchini.com The blogger here is English-speaking Parisian Clotilde Dusoulier, who professes to love every food-related act, from shopping for ingredients to garnishing a plate to consuming the results, and recounts all of it with unpretentious aplomb. Recipes are indexed. Extras include a Bloxicon page, where you can brush up on French culinary terms from cassoulet to ganache, and a helpful Conversions cheat sheet. Honorable mention: The Accidental Hedonist, written with flair by one Kate Hopkins. Newsy, political and practical all at once (she offers 14 pointers "for better enjoyment of your cheese...
...their relentless criticisms with any of Mao's accomplishments, like fending off Stalin's attempt to run China as a Soviet fiefdom, reimposing central authority in a fractious country, giving Chinese a new sense of pride and nationhood, or marketing his own image at home and abroad with dazzling aplomb...