Word: aplomb
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...them out with a parsimony that makes every jot count. Her sound, never big or brassy, is growing thin at the top and breathy at the bottom. So she spends her notes in the same way that dispossessed nobility lives on a dwindling income: with frugal selectivity but stylish aplomb. As she puts on weight, it becomes a little easier-but only a little-to believe that she is 47 and a grandmother. So she tones her act down to a quieter hush, focuses her emotions in an even narrower hypnotic beam, and makes the lifting of an eyebrow...
...cover. Latest on that long list is Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher, who appeared on the Aug. 18 cover. After Bus sailed Intrepid to four straight victories over Australia's challenger Dame Pattie, we learned that his crew had hung copies of the cover portrait belowdecks. With proper nautical aplomb, they sailed right into the face of the cover-jinx myth...
...with all the haughty aplomb of a modern-day Captain Bligh, decreed Britain's Postmaster General Edward Short. The pirates in this case were the dozen or so illegal radio stations that for the past three years have been beaming pop music into the British Isles from makeshift studios on rusty ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit. True to his word, Short last month helped push a piece of legislation through Parliament which, by making it a criminal offense to supply advertising, food or ships to the outlaw stations...
...kind of tedious scene that would strain the nerves of the most seasoned actors. But Ben, star of the forthcoming CBS-TV series, Gentle Ben, fended off the attack of a Bengal tiger with almost playful aplomb, breezed through the retakes without missing a cue. Congratulated by Producer George Sherman, Ben merely grunted and slurped down a can of sardines-just as any 7ft.-long, 650-lb. black bear would do after a hard day on the set. Says Sherman: "You look at the script and say 'a bear can't do those things...
While feeling somewhat uncomfortable amid the ballyhoo ("I honestly can't say that I enjoy mass fame"), Sir Francis suffered the commercial storm with the same aplomb that he displayed in the gale winds of the roaring forties. He willingly endorsed-for varying but plentiful fees-the products of dozens of companies, from Dunlop boots to Tupperware. After all, honoring the sponsors of his trip, he wore Daks slacks on the boat, flourished the coiled emblem of the International Wool Secretariat on his peaked cap, drank Whitbread ale and Squires gin en route and sent regular dispatches...