Word: cools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Columnist Maxine Cheshire during the Inaugural festivities, he has suffered chilly relations with the White House. At a Manhattan dinner to receive the Thomas A. Dooley Foundation award for being a Splendid American of "forthrightness, honesty, integrity," Sinatra found the other Splendid American, Spiro T. Agnew, playing it cool. The two friends arrived separately, supped separately, departed separately. It was left to Judy Agnew to entertain her husband's old Palm Springs, Calif., host and golfing crony...
...passion. Even within individual lines, he inserted a word or phrase that mockingly deflated the emotion it expressed. Thus Elyot says to Amanda in Private Lives: "You're looking very lovely in this damned moonlight, Amanda." Repeated time and again, this approach almost makes Coward the granddaddy of cool...
...never cool about the theater, however. It was his cross, his sword, and his crown. He served it with undeviating grace, wit and loyalty. He could not abide anything professionally slipshod on a stage. Once, when a pair of leading actors loafed self-indulgently through a matinee of one of his musicals, he went backstage and tartly chided their performance as "a triumph of nevermind over doesn't-matter...
...benefit auction in Los Angeles for the "Neighbors of Watts," Norton Simon, the millionaire art collector and philanthropist, plunked down a cool $23,000 for Ripening, a drybrush watercolor of two tomatoes on a weatherworn windowsill. "Fantastic," glowed the artist, Actor Henry Fonda, who had donated the watercolor to the auction. "Norton and Jennifer [Norton's wife, Actress Jennifer Jones] phoned my wife Shirlee the day after the auction to say how pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill...
This approach suits the temperament of his star, Debbie Reynolds, who is a model of cool, scrubbed-up efficiency rather reminiscent of the Old Dutch cleanser ads. And does she work! It is as if she were performing some selfless public service that precluded the display of any private pleasure. She sings well, but without entrancement. She dances nimbly, but without any vivifying personal style. She acts acceptably without creating a character...