Word: elan
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Easy Jokes. Reagan was better at striking sparks. Displaying increasing confidence and elan, he campaigned in Kentucky and Idaho before moving on to Michigan. The jokes came easily. Asked for the umpteenth time about his position on the Panama Canal, he quipped: "If they don't watch out, I'll come out and start defending the Erie Canal." In keeping with his levity, his accompanying son Ron Jr., 17, sported a T shirt emblazoned with a caricature of Richard Nixon, wearing red, white and blue shoes and flashing a victory sign, and the joshing slogan "Perfectly clear-Nixon...
...party had climaxed at about 12:30 a.m., when a contingent of Wellesley women who had flushed into the room with the studied elan and fragrant swish of social breeding abandoned us for the bus back home or the rooms of hospitable Harvard students. The stoned still demanded drinks at the bar and barked when they were not available, the girl with the eye on her shirt had been convinced to keep on dancing, and even the boy with the tired black hat on his head continued to dance angularly with the girl I still...
That can happen any time, anywhere that she is skating well. At her best, Dorothy embodies the old adage that power perfected becomes grace. Skating with elan and subtle musicality, she skims over the ice, gliding smoothly into jumps that flow without hesitation into spins and spirals. There are no seams in her skating. "Every move is right, every line is clean," says two-time figure-skating Gold Medalist Dick Button. "Everything is in the right position." Charles Foster, a judge at the U.S. championships in Colorado Springs last month, put it this way: "Dorothy skates with finesse; she performs...
...shrinking daily, Photographers Mark Godfrey and Dirck Halstead, who have traveled to the front in Indochina by Jeep, taxi and helicopter in the past, now found the story-and the war-coming to them in Saigon. The fatalistic, enervating mood of defeat they found there contrasted sharply with the elan of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong victors in Danang, captured in an exclusive series of behind-the-lines shots in this issue by the Iranian photographer Abbas...
...Caan has so far turned down the chance to direct. "It's been offered, but I'm not ready for it." Acting is his business - not his entire life. His horses are running well. He wants to keep things light, ride through movies with elan. "You know the kind of actor I am?" he asks. "I'm the sort who says before each movie, 'Oh God, give me a break...