Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best Bonds, like the car that twirls, were sly without quite getting silly. The best Bonds also had Sean Connery, whose absence is sorely felt here. An actor of considerable resource, Connery played 007 with just the right combination of conviction and detachment. He also had a self-mocking aplomb that would be hard to duplicate. His Bond is definitive. Roger Moore, who first played 007 in Live and Let Die (1973), lacks all Connery's strengths and has several deep deficiencies. He has all the worldliness of a floorwalker, and looks as if his last adventure were spending...
Pope Paul named Bernardin Archbishop of Cincinnati in 1972. He has headed the 19-county archdiocese and its 511,000 Catholics with remarkable aplomb, steering a hazardous course between the church's sometimes apoplectic right and its sometimes radical left. For example, he has left the choice of religious curriculum-often a source of bitter quarrels between liberals and conservatives-to individual parishes...
Congreve was the alchemist of Restoration comedy, refining grossness into gaiety. He gave bawdry rare class. His rakish characters pursue their seductions, cuckoldries and feverish fornications with the aristocratic aplomb of English gentlemen on a fox hunt. Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit. The absolute lack of any sense of sin gives even the most scandalous scenes in Congreve's plays a pagan air of preadamite innocence...
Pandemonium broke out. As the assassin raced down the center aisle, spectators leaped from their seats and screamed. Security men rushed toward the stage. Park, displaying the cool aplomb of a professional soldier, ducked behind the bulletproof lectern while his bodyguards returned the fire. A 16-year-old high school girl in the audience was killed in the Shootout. Another bullet struck the gunman in the leg; he was wrestled to the floor and carried out of the hall. A third bullet hit Park's charming wife Yook Young Soo, who was seated on the dais directly behind...
...secret of Trippet's success was his skill as a name dropper. Lawrence Kartiganer, a partner in a Beverly Hills law firm that invested in Home-Stake and suggested it to Benny, Williams, Director Mike Nichols and Singer Bobbie Gentry, says that Trippet, a man of some aplomb, would let slip "oh, casually" the names of celebrities he had already signed up. Says Kartiganer: "When investors of the caliber of the top executives at the First National City Bank have a piece of the action, there is a tremendous psychological effect." (Wriston says that First National City itself never...