Word: aplomb
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...week -- and less than 48 hours from deadline -- she was asked to oversee our late-breaking cover story on Susan Smith, the young South Carolina mother accused of murdering her children. It was an assignment whose challenge amounted almost to hazing, but Aitken brought it off with skill and aplomb...
...turns out, was abandoned by her husband with two young children. Along for the ride is Mollic's 12-year-old son, Paris (Chris Terrio), who struggles with the complexities of his twisted family life. McCullers does not handle the positive and negative elements of these characters with aplomb and the audience feels itself jerked from high to low with each scene...
...only constant in the whole mess is Charlie Watts' solid, reliable drumming. Never flashy but never too understated, Watts still brings it home with aplomb. Then again, he's never had an extended solo in his whole Stones career. Maybe those jazzy side projects have helped him to stay the course...
Only Grant could walk down a street with a leopard following him and Katharine Hepburn yelling out the window in a high-pitched voice, "There's a leopard following you!" and handle the situation with aplomb. You just don't see too many men like that walking the streets these days. You don't see too many leopards either, but that's another point entirely...
...hook, and then "I knew we'd done to very different schools..." The compact "guitar also," when it comes, is a deliberately squeaky, pathos-filled echo of the triumphant 70s lust you'd be likely to find at the end of a Cheap Trick song, the Sugargliders' quiet aplomb here as everywhere on the album, sounds like the product of diminished expectations, sounds resigned and hopeful at the same time. Anyone to whom that attitude appeals will be likely to find, and love, it in the delicately ironized pop songs collected on this splendid long-player...