Word: aplomb
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...creepy marvel to watch James in action. He has the cool aplomb, analytical acumen and attention to detail of a great athlete, or a master psychopath, maybe both. A quote from former New York Times Iraq expert Christopher Hedges that opens the film says, "War is a drug." Movies often editorialize on this theme: the man who's a misfit back home but an efficient, imaginative killing machine on the battlefield. Bigelow and Boal aren't after that. They're saying that, in a hellish peace-keeping operation like the U.S. deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan (James' previous assignment...
...prosecution, zealous assistant D.A. McIntosh (famed for his campaign against nudist magazines) sounded the threat of licentious literature to the children of San Francisco, and contended that Ginsberg could have said what he had to say with more aplomb and fewer four-letter words...
...supporters, it offered an explanation for her losses, and it may have inspired some journalists to turn up the heat on her opponent to prove their fairness. (It didn't help that in the days before Texas and Ohio, he responded to that heat with a surprising lack of aplomb.) Obama stopped rising in the polls. Clinton stopped falling. The latest Gallup tracking poll once again has the race a dead heat...
...whole, the songs are extremely witty. The main cast and the ensemble perform them with aplomb, albeit with a style that is slightly over-dependent on kick-line dancing. A particular standout is Polk’s Ko-Ko, whose every emotion plays itself out exaggeratedly across his face in complete keeping with the play’s nature. Also fantastic is Adam Goldenberg ’08 (who is also a Crimson columnist) as the haughty, money-grubbing official Pooh-Bah. As befits the character, he manages to seem both dignified and pathetic in each scene. The interactions between...
...professor Alan M. Dershowitz challenged Matory after his television appearance and Matory, ever an exemplar of the openness he so venerates, responded with the utmost maturity and aplomb. Dershowitz has said that when he asked Matory to prove that Summers had ever actually denied the rights of Palestinians, Matory flew into a rage, chastising Dershowitz for being an incompetent professor, unfit for teaching at a university like Harvard. This, surely, is the sort of “civil dialogue” that the Faculty ought to encourage. I wonder if the UC is looking for a new faculty advisor...