Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faults, may well stand as a milestone in the career of Sweden's Ingmar Bergman. It is his first film in color. It is lavish in decor. Though it fails miserably, it is the work of a man who falls flat on his face with impressive aplomb. Behind a transparent disguise as a knockabout farce, it is Bergman's personal indictment of his own critics and public...
Little boys are not normally noted for observance of protocol. But when William Wallace Daniel, 4, was asked by Grandfather Harry S. Truman, 79, to accompany him to a bridge dedication, William fell solemnly into step a respectful three paces behind, with all the inborn aplomb of a White House aide. After the bridge at Florida's Duck Key had been named after him, Truman met the press. Who would be the Republican presidential candidate? Harry riposted: "I don't nominate Republicans; I just beat...
Handling the questions of a potentially explosive audience with considerable aplomb, Rock translated the tense atmosphere into one of delight with his quips about his personal campaign for universal acceptance of contraceptive procedures. He did not predict when birth control will achieve success, but insisted that he "was born and will always remain an optimist...
...film suffers because its battle of the sexes is an uneven contest. Reginald Kernan-an American physician turned model and actor-looks fine in hunting clothes, but seems generally opaque as the husband. He is clearly outclassed by Signoret, whose vast aplomb enables her to crack open a fifth of Johnnie Walker and dab Scotch on her wrists and ear lobes for all the world as if it were Jolie Madame...
Moving from foreign trade to foreign relations, Khrushchev pulled out all the "peaceful coexistence" clichés, lost his aplomb (but not his temper) only when Chauncey W. Cook, president of General Foods, asked "Why is it necessary to build a Berlin Wall and shoot people down if they try to get over...