Word: aplomb
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Director Charles Walters has the sense to let all this seem exactly what it is: nonsense. He skillfully mingles cinemagic and circus-pocus, and he almost always gets the best out of his players-including Jumbo, portrayed with massive aplomb by an animal named Sydney, who wears a size 92 top hat and, in profile, looks rather like Durante. Day as usual is blindingly sunny, but in a circus the glare seems suitable. Boyd, for once, talks without sounding as if he were a species of Boyd that chews worms. And Martha Raye is hilarious as an unfortunate fortuneteller...
...took it with his customary aplomb," said the lawyer for monocled Actor Martyn Green, 63, whose $350,000 negligence suit against a Manhattan parking garage was tossed out of court. Three years ago, Green's left leg was amputated after it was crushed between the garage's self-service elevator platform and the shaft wall; an ambulance intern had to borrow a penknife from a cop to perform the operation. But an all-male jury agreed that Green had no claim. He was operating the elevator himself because he didn't trust the garage attendants to park...
...part Mme. Crespin's great success at Bayreuth; opera audiences must have responded as well to the unmistakable aura of the Grand Manner which hovers about her. In this age of slenderized divas, Mme. Crespin remains a satisfyingly ample woman, and on Thursday night she managed with absolutely devastating aplomb the enormous piece of green satin which for some reason was draped about her shoulders. Equally devastating was the brilliant high B (at the end of Gounod's "O my lyre immortelle") which brought the scheduled part of the concert to a close with the expected volley of applause. Then...
...Prime Minister, Sato will not lack political skill. In 1954, when he was his party's chief fund raiser, he was accused of taking $150,000 in bribes from industrialists to ease antitrust laws. Replied Sato with icy aplomb: "My job was to raise party funds; I did nothing that any politician who knew his job would not have done." Like his brother, Politician Sato counts himself a firm friend of the West. Though trade-hungry Japan hopes ultimately to do some business with Red China, for the time being it has "no intention of going against free world...
...father, a building contractor and amateur ballplayer, passed on to him the tools of his two trades-a carpenter's saw and a fast ball. By the time he was ten, Del knew his way around a scaffolding or an infield with equal aplomb. "I can't remember not being captain of the team," he says. "When we chose sides for a pick-up game, I was always one of the guys who did the choosing...