The opening number, "Christopher Street," which presents Greenwich Village as a happy-go-lucky bohemia, captures this attitude most promisingly, as tourists and residents face off in a ballet of voyeurs and poseurs, clad in Martin Pakledinaz's Crayola-colored costumes.
My friend's daughter, who attends one of those schools where all the students are children of either well-off Nigerians or well-paid expatriates, recently captured this attitude while summarizing the plot of my novel to her mother.
As for "Green Onions," a song that is the foundation of the label's identity, we could take the words of Booker T. Jones himself, who, in Robert Gordon's recent book, "Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion," describes it as capturing "this attitude of making it as funky as can be, as simple as can be".
Local pidgin has an expression, "Cool head, main t'ing" (or "thing" for standard English fanatics) that perfectly captures this island attitude.
It's been said a great photograph should capture the attitude, the soul and the mind of a great moment.
The novels "beautifully capture the attitudes of the North Korean officials I've met," Mr. Kristof wrote.
"He captures the culture, he captures the attitude and he really highlights the ridiculous on issues that are blocking us," said Fatin Yousef Bundagji, a business consultant and activist.
What Mr. Stone excels at is conjuring the mood of specific times and places, capturing the attitude he and his friends shared as well as the larger zeitgeist.
McKinsey said it paid for the survey by Ipsos, a French marketing firm, "to capture the attitudes of employers," large and small.
In the title role, J. Kyle Manzay captures the attitude of the depressed and sullen young prince, home from school to mourn his father, furious with his mother, Gertrude, for having immediately married her dead husband's brother, Claudius.
