Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poised to be a great, funny, well-acted film. It wasn’t.Jennifer Garner was high-strung and anxious, as if she were in an episode of “Alias.” The only role Michael Cera’s capable of playing—the aloof and awkward George Michael of “Arrested Development”—worked well in the hit “Superbad,” but made for a strange, apathetic teenage dad-to-be in the context of “Juno.” The charm...
...photograph shown to jurors, Princess Diana sits between her two sisters in the backseat of a car, the three of them doubled over in laughter. Perhaps you can't remember the joke, the attorney suggests to the witness, Diana's eldest sister, the Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Aloof and understated throughout the day's proceedings, she breaks into a naughty grin: "I'm afraid...
Zuma's extraordinary comeback--he was recently endorsed by the ANC Women's League--is testament to the anger the aloof Mbeki arouses in the party's rank and file. At the ANC conference, delegates booed him and drowned out his allies with songs supporting Zuma, whose rejection by South Africa's lite has made him a hero to the poor. The constitution prevents Mbeki from running for re-election, but Zuma will also be barred if he is convicted of corruption. That means South Africa's leadership could hinge on whether its new top politician...
...that she and then-husband Tom Arnold were "America's worst nightmare: white trash with money." Some pundits in France are now wondering if there isn't something of that at work with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's iconoclastic Elysée reign. Out are the days of somber, aloof and understated figureheads of the French Republic; welcomed in are the celebrity and multi-billionaire visitors, whom Sarkozy greets while wearing expensive suits, stylish sunglasses and conspicuously large wristwatches. Sarkozy has become what the front page of Wednesday's Libération called "The Bling-Bling President...
...friends." In fact, no architect is an island, and several individuals - notably Friend, Danish architect Ulrik Plesner, and artists Barbara Sansoni and Laki Senanayake - influenced Bawa's vernacular experiments. As Robson's title suggests, Bawa's legacy, if not his personal renown, continues to thrive because he was not aloof but a collaborator, and because the ideas behind his aristocratic demeanor were essentially democratic - namely, that local tradition must be valued in a globalized world, and the future and the past need not dwell in separate houses...