Word: hauteur
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...Simpson's friends about the justice's drinking habits, but they also asked Simpson why he was suing. After all, they said, he had already paid the power company for smashing its pole, which would seem to imply a measure of responsibility for the accident. With icy hauteur, both the justice and his friend stood mute...
Purebred Siamese. Capucine's secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose...
...Dunaway (Kathleen Stanton) turns the directional restraint into stiffness. Especially in the first act her voice is tense, her gestures mannerd. The well-born Irishwoman who left "God and country" for a tavern-keeper might have some residual hauteur, but she certainly wouldn't be cold. Only in her death scene at the end of the play does she loosen up, and become passionate enough to assert her role...
...Volkswagen when it was parked in a space reserved for Government officials, and Washington's U.S. Attorney David C. Acheson, 45, son of the former Secretary of State, promptly sent the tickets to be fixed. "Since I am a Government official," said he with a combination of hauteur and logic, "it would seem to me that the place was reserved for me." He had not reckoned on Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, 64, a man of many scattered parts, who is known to headline writers as the "archfoe of tick et fixing," and who is credited...
Shake & Shock. Plainly, some of Ky's moves were more gestures than policies. Paris reacted to the cutting of diplomatic ties with characteristic hauteur, but showed no signs of withdrawing its cultural and economic missions in Saigon. De Gaulle's only reported comment was to inquire loftily: "Qui est Ky?" It will take more than a few executions to cure the corruption that plagues Saigon and most other Asian capitals. Moreover, price controls on rice and other consumer goods do not get to the root of the problem: scarcities caused by Viet Cong control of roads between farming...