Word: aplomb
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...member of the foursome (Ned Sherrin) acts as a kind of M.C. and spins off topical jests with the aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical...
Technically audacious, witty and well-acted, Providencefinally bogs down in the layers of resonance which it so successfully evokes. In exploring the hidden terrors of the individual mind and the artist's efforts to exorcise them through his work, Resnais, for all his technical aplomb, cannot fully transcend the privacy of the nightmare. The effect of his camera work and wordplay is dazzling, but the tension they create is somehow sterile. The agony of Gielgud's musings is intelligible, in the end, only...
...into the booth of a Cambridge restaurant and opened up a press get-together by brimming an empty beer glass with a local label. Sporting a neat beard and looking like a handsome Paul Simon without the emerging pate, Rudolph gazed out at the assembled journalists with all the aplomb of a seasoned schlepper of the talk show-press conference circuit who knows that this time around, he's got something special to market. And so it is with the 32-year old director; in Rudolph's case however, his heady success is more that of the young short-story...
...With a French wife and two children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...
Carter handled the incident, which could have adversely affected his performance in black precincts on Tuesday, with aplomb. Carter said he would not quit the church but rather would stay and "try to change an attitude that I abhor...