Word: aplomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the seven premiers' legal challenge cannot go directly to Canada's Supreme Court without approval of the federal government, Trudeau's adversaries will have to appeal in provincial courts first. But Trudeau has displayed his usual cunning aplomb, forcing the premiers into a sticky Catch-22. His actions cannot be challenged by the premiers until the resolution favoring his package takes effect; and by the time his plan takes effect, the premiers will be paralyzed. It is difficult to imagine--say in mid-1981 after a glorious ceremony whereby the Queen hands the country its constitution--the premiers going...
...visit to the U.S., it was Mugabe who did the conquering. Only a year ago, he was a hunted rebel leader, directing his guerrillas against the white-backed government of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. But he swept through the United Nations, New York City and Washington, D.C., with the aplomb of an experienced diplomat who had spent a lifetime on the international political stage...
...fact, Redford plays Murton with quiet aplomb. It is not a particularly demanding role; anyone can look horrified by the abuses at the Arkansas prison. And the abuses reel by in living color: whippings, rapes, tortures and murders, all preparation for the true-to-life discovery of coffins in the prison field...
McCue and Redford are not the only characters to don headgear. But neither Jeff Horwitz as Pozzo, a representative of the society that Beckett challenges, nor Lisa Claudy, as Pozzo's servant Lucky who responds to his master's every call, can remove their hats with the same aplomb. They lack Redford and McCue's dramatic dexterity. Horwitz seems content to outshout the rest of the actors, sounding more vaudevilian than dramatic. Claudy is not up to Beckett's extremely demanding monologue that satirizes Joyce, and sounds uncomfortable with the speed with which she must utter Lucky's stream...
...from the Riley home to the pub (a wonderfully dilapidated one, designed by Derek McLane), from disturbing reality to comic illusion, occur smoothly under Maddy DeLone's crisp direction. DeLone makes full use of the intimate confines of the Winthrop House JCR, organizing the human traffic with all the aplomb of a Back Bay traffic cop. A Stoppard play needs technical gadgetry: for true comic effect, Enter a Free Man should have a "Rule Britannia" clock, a few portraits of the Queen, BBC radio droning in the background, and "indoor rain." The Winthrop production manages well without them...