For his part, Mr. Macklowe — a fierce competitor who still races his custom 112-foot yacht in regattas off the coast of Sardinia — coolly plays down the crisis.
Coolly staring down, selling a brand of fine cognac in the process, it is the face of the jazz icon Miles Davis.
There stands William gazing up in awe at a Chinese giant as they shake hands, while Yao Ming, a 7ft 6in tall basketball player, coolly looks down on the Prince with a courteously aloof smile.
Yet her main gift as a novelist is a talent for coolly nailing down uncomfortable realities like the feelings of regret that haunt a sister who asks if she did right by her big brother.
As a senior officer in Israel's Shin Bet security service, Gideon Ezra spent years coolly tracking down Palestinian militants, but in a Jerusalem television studio on Sunday night he lost his composure.
Battered by Seattle in his last start, Sabathia stayed taller in his delivery and coolly set down the Twins, allowing only one runner to advance on the bases after the second inning.
For Jessua, Duchaussoy appeared as an icy doctor at a sinister rejuvenating clinic in Traitement de Choc (Shock Treatment, 1973), and a police inspector coolly tracking down an insane criminal (Jean Yanne) in Armaguedon (Armageddon, 1977).
Playing with four fouls, the 22-year-old Van Horn scored at will on an array of 3-point shots and breathtaking drives to the hoop before putting the game away for good by coolly knocking down a pair of free throws with 6.8 seconds to play.
All of which means that, despite his efforts to coolly play down expectations for his future, Mr. Obama has allowed his already stratospheric profile to grow a little higher of late and has done less to tamp down the celebrity buzz than he did when he first arrived in the Senate last year.
Clips of the former prosecutor coolly facing down Atty.
