Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, plunges into "Ah, My Joyous Heart Is Flying" with a touching show of grief left over from the previous recitation. The exception to the awkwardness is Hughes, who as Cherubino portrays first a lively teenage boy, then a boy masquerading as a girl, with limitless aplomb and stage presence. Hughes' voice also provides some of the program's best moments, soaring effortlessly in an opening aria and a piquant love song to the Countess...
...goes with it - always wins out. Shared or not, that fundamentalist faith gives Jerry Lee's music, even to a heathen, the unique power of sin. No smart talk or sidestepping for him. This is the devil's music, and Jerry Lee Lewis plays it with the aplomb of a peer. He may smell damnation himself, but that unholy gift of his has surely secured him a place in rock-'n'-roll heaven. Right up there in the dark. At the end of the road...
...money he earns, estimated to be in the high six figures annually, is spent on creature comforts, such as good meals and his blue Cadillac Seville, which he joyfully pilots around Manhattan's pot-holed streets with the aplomb of a captain at the helm of a swift cutter. But he is also generous with his Met colleagues, sending them champagne on festive occasions and often giving a party at the Renaissance Center in Detroit to celebrate the company's yearly U.S. spring tour...
Reagan's tour was more courteous than momentous, meant to create an impression of U.S. sensitivity rather than diplomatic coups. For all that, Reagan handled himself well. He delighted the Brazilians, treated Colombian contrariness with aplomb and showed requisite concern toward Central American countries. An unambitious agenda, to be sure, but in its approach to Latin America the Reagan Administration can do worse than behave with simple, graceful solicitousness. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Douglas Brew with Reagan and Gavin Scott/Brasilia
...mauve Lycra ski suit falls in love with young medical student with a full head of hair on the slopes near Lake Tahoe. In Forbidden Love, a CBS-TV movie to be aired next season, Yvette Mimieux, 39, fits the role of the older woman with nearly the same aplomb that she fits the Suzy Chapstick getup. "It's an outfit that I thought would appeal to a student of anatomy," says Mimieux. Or for that matter, a student of architecture, a student of air-conditioner repair, a student...