Word: supercool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than any other astronaut ($30,054 a year, v. Aldrin's $22,650 as an Air Force colonel and Collins' $20,400 as an Air Force lieutenant colonel), a fact that has stirred resentment. There are men in the space program, in fact, who detect behind Armstrong's supercool all-American image a rigid character who has more faith in the perfectibility of machines than of people. "He's all scrubbed up on the outside," says a NASA official, "but inside he has nothing but contempt for the rest of mankind that isn't willing to work as hard...
Watching Cronkite. As the afternoon wears on, one can tell the time by the edginess in the air in the Huntley-Brinkley newsroom. David is supercool, strolling occasionally from his private office to flip his copy onto the producer's desk. There are three echelons of editors, but none of them lays a glove on Brinkley's stuff. At 6:20 p.m., he heads for the studio three flights up. Huntley wears makeup. Brinkley never does. Generally, during the Huntley or filmed items and the commercials, Brinkley is still sandpapering his own prose and cutting it to size...
BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco detective in this modish thriller about current life styles in the criminal underworld...
BULLITT. Steve McQueen plays it fast and supercool as a San Francisco cop in this modish, violent thriller about current life styles in the underworld...
BULLITT. A violent journey into the underworld, where the crook is a savage and the cop a man alone. Steve McQueen provides a supercool performance as a San Francisco police lieutenant...