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But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.
I miss the witty poise that Elizabeth Hurley brought to the first Austin Powers . More than that, I wish that Myers had it in him to cultivate his counterpart as a comic actress and then let her rip--an actress who could be nerdy and alluring at once, who'd have a comeback for, "I put the grrrrr in swinger, baby."
You see it in Sullivan's banter with the working-class musicians in the pit and in Gilbert's with the uppity actors (the movie's posturing middle class), whom he drills on pronunciation and poise.
" Then she breathes, regains her go-get-'em poise, replaces her mask.
For example, the junction between the aptamer and the Group I ribozyme in the aptazyme Th2P6 resembled the deletion variant td ΔP6-6; the aptazyme was activated by theophylline, while the splicing defect of the deletion variant at 3 mM magnesium was suppressed by 8 mM magnesium or by stabilization of a tetraloop sequence that capped the P6 helix [ 15 ] . Defects that poise a ribozyme between active and inactive conformers have previously been used to engineer effector-dependence [ 20 ] .