Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bursting with aplomb...
...year's Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus has little out of the ordinary to offer, which is not a particularly damning criticism if you happen to be entertained by polar bears, clowns, horses, acrobats, dancing girls, lions, aerialists, or unicycle riders. These standard items have been produced with aplomb, magnificence, smoothness, showmanship, and noisy music, leaving little to be nostalgically longed after by circus devotees except possibly the Wallendas, who used to ride bicycles across high wires...
Eddie Davis' Jayvee players weren't very charitable hosts to their unfortunate visitors from Providence. Goalie "Mad Anthony" Ripley handled all shots with aplomb to gain himself a shutout, and just about everybody who had a chance scored a goal...
...play cannot succeed without a good Othello, but a better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor...
Sitting Pretty, which owes a war-sized debt to The Man Who Came to Dinner, will probably be the first of a series of similar Clifton Webb farces. Thanks to his chilly relish of his lines, and his generally swishy aplomb, the picture is good for many more smiles than yawns...