Word: demeanors
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Arriving on a motorcycle, wearing jeans and a carrying a backpack, Alain Cojean is hardly the image of a Paris restaurant mogul. But then again the 45-year-old with an unassuming but frenetic demeanor hasn't created your typical Paris eatery. On an unusually warm April morning across the street from the Louvre, in a former tea salon in a building built in the mid-19th century, he is inspecting progress on the construction of what will be the newest location of his namesake fast-food restaurant. Five or six weeks from now, the team of workers sanding...
...walking a predetermined path to cinematic success. But Fergus cautions against such delusions of grandeur.“The vast majority of the forces that define our destiny are completely out of our control,” says Fergus in an in-person interview with The Crimson. His cool demeanor, whimsical digressions, and unassuming nature suggest that he truly believes in the controlling forces of destiny—for good or ill.IT IS YOUR DESTINY“First Snow” is a movie about fate and the inevitable consequence of one’s decisions. The main character, Jimmy...
...that Loesser was as needy as Hutton; nobody could be. A Runyonesque character like the ones he put into Guy and Dolls, he was the classic little guy buoyed by an irrepressible belief in himself. With oceans of vim and a tough demeanor, Loesser was known to insult co-writers and directors and blow his top at rehearsals. He once got so mad at the way Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls' original Sister Sara, was mangling one of his songs that he socked her. Yet under the Cagney bully-bravado shone a big heart and the impulse to help other...
With his curly, salt-and-pepper hair and thoughtful demeanor, Chris West looks like just another mid-career professor as he crosses the streets of Oxford University. But West, trained as a zoologist, is more an activist than an academic these days. From his cramped office around the corner from Balliol College, he directs the government's UK Climate Impacts Program, which educates individuals and businesses in Britain about the risks they face from climate change and the ways to cope with...
...Sexiest Man Alive." The Irish actor, who won a Golden Globe for his performance as a different sort of swaggering king in the 2005 CBS mini-series Elvis, has the full lips and slim hips to carry off the King's sexy side, and a bit of the demeanor too. "Jonny, by instinct, has many of the same qualities as Henry," says Hirst. "He has a short attention span. He never thinks there's anything he can't do." All of which helps when the actor has to declare war, ride a horse while carrying a giant wooden lance...