Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only Grant could walk down a street with a leopard following him and Katharine Hepburn yelling out the window in a high-pitched voice, "There's a leopard following you!" and handle the situation with aplomb. You just don't see too many men like that walking the streets these days. You don't see too many leopards either, but that's another point entirely...
...hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo of the triumphant 70s lust you'd be likely to find at the end of a Cheap Trick song, the Sugargliders' quiet aplomb here as everywhere on the album, sounds like the product of diminished expectations, sounds resigned and hopeful at the same time. Anyone to whom that attitude appeals will be likely to find, and love, it in the delicately ironized pop songs collected on this splendid long-player...
...America's job crisis. Her most recent big assignment was especially apt: a cover story on the new generation of leaders at the Big Three Detroit automakers. And she made it all look easy. Says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield: "She has not only handled everything with skill and aplomb, but has emerged unruffled and serenely smiling...
...unknown. It will be done very well, probably on a huge canvas, with perfect decorum and an unfaltering sense of design, every black line in its right place, not a slippage in the stripes and Benday dots. Its flat, posterish colors will read with infrangible aplomb. It will parody other art, as in the past Lichtenstein's work has parodied everything from Art Deco to synthetic Cubism, from Franz Marc's horses to Monet's versions of Rouen Cathedral, from Mondrian's squares to the generic brushstroke of late Abstract Expressionism. It will have a number of concealed jokes...
...first show, O'Brien defused the hype over his arrival with aplomb and good humor. In a taped opening bit, he was seen jauntily walking to work on D- day, as everyone from his apartment doorman to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw warned, "You'd better be good." When John Goodman appeared, the screen flashed FIRST GUEST and he was mobbed by photographers. When Drew Barrymore showed a provocative photo of herself in a Guess? jeans ad, O'Brien yelped with mock lust, then showed a cue card that read, OW! WOW! OWWW! "Everything's written down for me," he said...