Word: debonair
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...what was more a shift in style than structure, the Vatican press office was passed in July from longtime papal spokesman Joaqu?n Navarro-Valls, a debonair lay member of Opus Dei, who often was a newsmaker himself, to the more low-key Jesuit priest Father Federico Lombardi, already the director general of Vatican radio and television. The choice shows the desire to better coordinate the Holy See's communication agencies, long seen as too disjointed...
Cannes is a convention city, which means the people coming for the world's largest movie conference, the Cannes Film Festival, are in their seats for the morning's major screening by 8:15. Cannes is also a Riviera resort, which means the town comes alive at night. Debonair folk in evening clothes stroll the Croisette until just before dawn. The discos (including the one directly under our hotel room) blast their pounding sounds nonstop to 3 or 4 a.m. (which may explain why the prose of this night owl is sometimes on the jagged side). Critics, who want...
...Judicial battles - much like his continued control of a billion-dollar media empire, his loose tongue in diplomatic circles and even his recent hair replacement surgery - have helped set Berlusconi apart from most comparatively colorless Western leader. His supporters say the debonair, center-right politician has revolutionized the perennially gray world of Italian politics, carving out an influential role for his country on the world stage thanks to his rapport with the likes of Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair. His opponents, by sharp contrast, say Berlusconi puts democracy at risk with his myriad conflicts of interest and perennial...
From his performances as the cute neighbor on TV’s “The Facts of Life,” to the suave Dr. Doug Ross of “ER,” to the debonair Danny Ocean in “Ocean’s 11,” George Clooney has secured his role as one of America’s permanent sex symbols. Clooney claims that his most recent roles—writing, producing, and starring in “Syriana” and writing, directing and acting in the journalistic docudrama...
...long can an upmarket myth linger before tatty reality rubs it out? The legend of old Broadway-when stories of poor boys winning the hearts of rich girls served as metaphors for the irresistibility of American ambition, and debonair stars introduced songs that instantly found a spot in the everyone's internal juke box-is a good half-century out of date. No #1 Billboard hit has come from a Broadway musical since Judy Collins' "Send in the Clowns" from the Steven Sondheim A Little Night Music in 1973. No Broadway musical has put a bunch of its tunes...