Word: aptness
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...Tonight we saw the best of both worlds," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said, slightly butchering an otherwise apt cliche. "We played horrible at times and tremendous at other times. It was a confusing game...
...informality that can make Aspin agreeable as a man also made him unsuitable as a front man. At congressional hearings he was apt to put his elbow on the table and cradle his chin in one hand. He can irritate colleagues by referring to them by their last name only, or sometimes just the first. Military brass were startled to hear Aspin refer to General Colin Powell at a briefing by saying "Colin will take care of that." A senior Administration official summed up the problem: "Lacks gravitas...
...going to be a learning experience, I figured I should deal with breaking news." During her brief tenure she oversaw cover stories on such varied topics as the impending collapse of Castro's Cuba, human cloning and America's job crisis. Her most recent big assignment was especially apt: a cover story on the new generation of leaders at the Big Three Detroit automakers. And she made it all look easy. Says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield: "She has not only handled everything with skill and aplomb, but has emerged unruffled and serenely smiling...
Director George Reyes has woven together some lovely contrasts: in one scene, the cacophonic screaming of 20 maniacs ceases in a split second, and a timid flute melody drifts up into the air like Bambi frightening away Godzilla. The choreography achieves an apt explication of abstract concepts when the three singers illustrate de Sade's case against equality. The "General Copulation" number, however, is a bit too fervent...
...their values in the American mind. If Americans don't seem particularly hardworking or civic-minded these days, that is, at least in part, because the ways of the Wasp (now usually labeled "middle-class" or "Eurocentric") are such common targets of criticism $ and abuse. Anyone evincing them is apt to be labeled repressed, inauthentic, uptight or an "ice person...