Word: braggadocios
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...after the second Franklin hoax that Spiro decided to move on to bigger things, even though he had not graduated from Tulane. But in the fall of 1968 he showed up at Harvard Law School, where he spent the next two and a half years. If the swagger and braggadocio were showing then, no one recalls it--in general, he didn't leave enough of a mark for professors to recognize him when he came back as Jason Cord...
...concert. Springsteen is not a golden California boy or a glitter queen from Britain. Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains every kind of drug...
...funny Raisuli. Brian Keith conjures up a definitive T.R., strong and canny, with an edge of sadness and a real, rough dignity. One of the major surprises is Candice Bergen as Mrs. Pedecaris. Never the most comfortable of actresses, Bergen quickly falls in with the movie's congenial braggadocio and gives a performance that is wry and clever. She may not be quite the sort of woman for whom, as the ads say, "half the world may go to war," but she is good for at least a couple of hand-to-hand combats...
...last decade McMurtry's novels (Hud. The Last Picture Show) are generally dull and mediocre, but his Atlantic, article. "The Texas Moon, and Elsewhere," is an incisive exploration of the Texas character, and the strongest article in the issue. Carefully shunning the innumerable cliches about cowboys, oil and braggadocio that make up the prevailing image of the state even among Texans, McMurtry acts as the critic he feels Texas has always lacked. An expatriate now living in Washington. D.C., he returned to travel around Texas for three weeks last summer, and came away "contrasting with those of countless Southerners such...
...golf pro for six years but too young to have lost his self-confidence. "I may be remembered as the best front runner who ever played the game," he says. "When I get out in front, it's usually bye-bye, baby." A case of locker-room braggadocio? The record backs him up. In the Professional Golfers' Association's first two tournaments this year, Miller's performance has been astonishing. By the time the players arrived in Pebble Beach, Calif., for the third event last week, Jack Nicklaus was grumbling: "All I've heard about...