Working with two or three saxophonists (including David Murray and Chico Freeman, at different times), and doubling himself on piano or melodica, Mr. DeJohnette combined avant-garde combustion with a cool lyrical instinct.
While deftly separating the strands in this complex story and displaying a cool, sharp instinct for revealing detail (Yachting is Boy George's favorite magazine), Ms. LeBlanc also tells the story of Coco, another teenage mother.
One woman insisted that Mr Obama developed his cool disposition and instinct for inclusiveness on the lush and diverse tropical islands.
If Slimane's instinct for cool is an endorsement of the humble ballet slipper, the Saint Laurent line is part of a wider trend in fashion going back to flat.
Only recently have you begun to see a generation of designers here who approach fashion with a sportswear mentality, like Isabel Marant, who has an instinct for cool-looking clothes that are derived from American icons.
Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct"—seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).
It was a formative experience: under those circumstances, there is huge pressure on you to keep a cool head when your gut instinct says you're going to die.
If it serves to do anything, this instinct to be cool and commercial is what drives a rising fashion star like Anthony Vaccarello, a designer who demands clavicle perfection of his clients, to put something as mundane as acid-wash denim on his runway.
Whether or not this story is true, it encapsulates perfectly the relationship between the two men: Rocard, who has died aged 85, the eager challenger without the killer instinct; Mitterrand the cool and Olympian political operator with an uncanny sense of the weaknesses of his opponents.
(It's telling that many iconically creepy women — Mrs. Danvers, the austere and homoerotic housekeeper in "Rebecca," or Catherine Tramell, the cool putative murderess of "Basic Instinct" — seem to pose a physical and sexual menace; the Miss Havishams of the canon, bizarre and aloof, are usually mere eccentrics).
