Word: aplomb
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Slumping Stock Market. Many Irishmen viewed the bank strike with ebullient aplomb. "I had an overdraft due in two weeks," crowed a Dubliner, "now I can forget about it." Said an official of the Irish Central Bank, only half-jokingly: "People may soon decide that banks aren't necessary after all." Others took the situation more seriously. With cash scarce, trading on the Dublin Stock Exchange slumped, and the Tipperary cattle market closed altogether...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
CACTUS FLOWER. Like most Gallic romantic comedies, this farce is based on three things: lies, lies, lies. A Don Juanish dentist (Barry Nelson) tells them with aplomb. His gullible mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) accepts them with compassion. And his waspish nurse (Lauren Bacall) uncovers them with delight...
...hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...
Tactical Edge. Apart from an editorial yelp or two in Syria and Egypt, plus the predictable pro forma tongue-lashings for U.S. ambassadors in Arab capitals, the Arabs reacted to the announcement of U.S. sales to the Israelis with an aplomb that made it seem that they had known about the deal all along. Increasing Arab disunity and Egypt's heavy reliance on American foodstuffs put a damper on indignation-and so did the nimble manner in which Washington handled the revelation. By sending 100 tanks to Jordan last fall and then teaming with the British...