Word: blase
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...says, "Susan had the look we wanted--the current image that's hot. She fit the physical description of a '60s go-go dancer. After all, she doesn't talk or anything up there, so it's not her personality. It's her dancing and her blase, mod attitude...
Some people might wonder what Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal were doing out there on a Chicago street, armed and pantless. But Windy City residents can be a blase lot. Says Crystal: "There was a little old lady standing next to Hines, and she says, 'Excuse me, can I get by?' She didn't even notice that we were in our underwear and had guns!" So what did Hines do? Like a good Boy Scout, he stopped and escorted her across the street. Maybe she just assumed they were making a movie--which, of course, they were, playing a couple...
Columbus plays blase: "I still see it as what it is, a job," he says. "After two hours of film, it's over." As for Hollywood living, "I don't despise it," but he doesn't plan to get caught up in the glitter...
...especially impressed with the audience's enthusiastic reactions," he said, drawing a contrast to the blase response usually accorded by Manhattan's more "jaded" fashiongoers...
...must be read in context to be fully appreciated. Along the way there are a series of (apercus) of varying profundity. Eberstadt is an accute observer of the intellectual and social snobbery which prevails among the wealthy young. Mocking the common assumption that to be sophisticated is to be blase, unflappable, Jem says, "It's not glamorous not to be shocked. It's autistic." (The pun on artistic should not be lost on those who have ever tried this route to social chic.) He continues...