Word: aplomb
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Reagan's tour was more courteous than momentous, meant to create an impression of U.S. sensitivity rather than diplomatic coups. For all that, Reagan handled himself well. He delighted the Brazilians, treated Colombian contrariness with aplomb and showed requisite concern toward Central American countries. An unambitious agenda, to be sure, but in its approach to Latin America the Reagan Administration can do worse than behave with simple, graceful solicitousness. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Douglas Brew with Reagan and Gavin Scott/Brasilia
...mauve Lycra ski suit falls in love with young medical student with a full head of hair on the slopes near Lake Tahoe. In Forbidden Love, a CBS-TV movie to be aired next season, Yvette Mimieux, 39, fits the role of the older woman with nearly the same aplomb that she fits the Suzy Chapstick getup. "It's an outfit that I thought would appeal to a student of anatomy," says Mimieux. Or for that matter, a student of architecture, a student of air-conditioner repair, a student...
...course, not quite as simple as that. On a personal level, Reagan's Grand Tour had indeed gone well. The President nodded, literally, in the Vatican, but from then on moved through an extremely taxing schedule with grace, affability and aplomb. He read his big set speeches to members of the British Parliament and the West German Bundestag with flawless timing and resonance, and drew a laughing cheer from the Bonn politicians with a deft putdown of a solitary heckler. The man in the rue, via or Strasse could hardly help noticing that Reagan neither looked nor sounded like...
...with enthusiasm no matter what ridiculous things they are requested to do. With straight faces, Debbie Wasser and Ashley Roundtree calmly strip down to silk negligee and fruit-of-the-looms as they sing the melancholy duet "Heroes." Later, Wasser submits to being beaten with a cord with equal aplomb...
...that hard to define genre of the personal essay. His field of vision is broad. Most adept at chronicling the my read delicate changes and processes of the wilderness. Hoagland is also prescient in his observations of the doings of his own species. With equal amounts of aplomb, he explores topics as varied as the mating habits of the porcupine and the divorce customs of the questionably wise home sapiens...