Word: blusterous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wyke (rhymes with "like," but in this production incorrectly pronounced "wick"), the mystery novelist who invites his wife's lover to his home for a battle of wits Sam Bloomfield has an acceptable British accent and a smooth, resonant voice. But his characterization is superficial--a lot of surface bluster with little going on underneath. He has no spontaneity; the words sound as though he has said them too many times before, and he takes no delight in his own verbal cleverness. It is not a bad performance, but Wyke is a tantalizing character--a child clinging stubbornly...
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...used is Thomson's Island." Headmaster Winegar says some South Boston residents see the Thomson Island program as a form of brainwashing "because their kids go out there and they don't fight." Winegar maintains, however, that much of South Boston's opposition to the center is sheer bluster. "On the surface, the party line is 'we hate the place'" he says, "but their kids are always there...
...such male bluster works only if females allow it to work. Among many monogamous birds, a female will mate only with a male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...
When the German settlement rebuffs the French attack and threatens retaliation, this fragile social fabric disintegrates amid bluster, cowardice, hoarding and panic. Only one man keeps his head: a quiet, boyish geographer (Jacques Spiesser) who reveals an unsuspected flair for command. He supersedes the decent but feckless resident sergeant (Jean Carmet) and brilliantly mobilizes the local garrison...