Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hart used to complain about reporters' rote descriptions of him as "cool and aloof." But amid the evening hush, as his 727 headed for Washington, he confessed that he is uneasy with street campaigning. He manages the jolly handshaking and baby kissing. But he is ambivalent, at least, about the surging excitement of the crowds, the yearning he sees in hundreds of anonymous faces every day. "Those people are obviously looking for somebody to believe in, someone they can trust." That palpable emotional investment, Hart says, is awesome, even frightening. No matter who the candidate, he says, the crowds...
Since he became Prime Minister of Israel five months ago, Yitzhak Shamir has struggled with the problems left behind by his predecessor, Menachem Begin. In the process, his confidence has grown and he has proved to be a smooth, pragmatic leader. Shamir has cut government spending to try to cool off Israel's dangerously fevered economy. He has withdrawn Israel's occupation force in western Lebanon to the Awali River. Most important, he has mended his country's severely strained ties with the U.S. Now Shamir faces another test: early elections and a campaign that will undoubtedly...
Ralph: Poor Stanley. He'll have to do some remedial reading of the revolutionary texts. Didn't Alex Comfort tell us in More Joy of Sex that "hot sex" with its "tragic intensities" was far inferior to cool, unemotional...
...were doing this whole parody of rock concerts. Joseph [Jarman] came out naked as a joke, pretending to jam on a guitar, and everything was cool. We had these smoke bombs, though, and we were throwing em out into the audience--but then we found out they were fire bombs instead. Sleeping bags were catching fire and the crowd throwing the bombs back. People thought we were trying to sabotage the festival," he laughs...
...been excesses. Besides, there is an ultimate control on the press: if its readers do not believe it and do not trust it or if they think it lacks a standard of fair play, they will stop heeding it, and it will die. Therefore the press was inclined to cool its ardor for a time, even to go so far as to show that it could be fair to a President whose policies much of it despised...