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...most sophisticated people in the arts in New York and get along fabulously with them," he says. "If I want to, I can convince them that I know as much about something as they do, and I don't." How does he do that? "It's a feeling, an aura that you create...
...painting. There is not much narrative precision in Watteau's fetes galantes: these little societies of the elect, privileged folk in their shining taffetas are not exactly allegories; they are elaborations of mood, in which every pleat of fabric on a woman's turned back seems to carry its aura of psychological subtlety. And in Giorgione's Tempest, to this day no one really knows what the nude woman, young soldier and lightning flash are doing there...
...What I will take from last year's Game is the feeling at halftime when we were down, 10-7," Peterson says. "There was this aura, this feeling of confidence in the locker room. And I can say that there was no one in that locker room who doubted we would...
...memories that people have of John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy have created an aura of good feeling for anyone with that name. The memory has become more institutionalized in that it now applies across the board to any member of the family...
Jeff Hass, as the Uninvited Guest, a psychiatrist, shines on the Mather House impromptu stage. Throughout the scenes in his office, his careful, even tone gives him ultimate power over his patients. Hass plays the psychiatrist as the absolute manipulator and succeeds in creating a sinster aura about his character. His is definitely the most consistent performance in the show...