Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston's political figures have always been colorful and distinctive. The most revealing moments of their careers have come not in major speeches or public policy positions, but in those moments of humor and bravado which have shown their more private sides. It is those few glimpses of their personalities, not their administrative accomplishments, which have made the most lasting impressions, and made them legends of political lore...
...Crimson gave a bravado performance in front of an enthusiastic and boisterous crowd of 125 fans at Blodgett Pool last night, stealing the spotlight from the University of Massachusetts Minutemen...
...President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this circle -- and one who would fall for Nixon's own locker-room bravado as a political style. It did not work well for Nixon, but he managed to persuade some people, including Bush, that they could do it better (Bush actually does it worse...
...second week a dozen trainees have dropped out. But dozens of others like Goodrum, undaunted by failure, have hung in and passed their tests on the second and third tries. They swagger about the smoke-filled coffee room with all the bearing of veteran road hogs. Their bravado is largely superficial. "Deep down, these guys realize it isn't B.J. and the Bear out there on the highway," says a recruiter. The real road is tougher than the school, but at this point, who wants to tamper with romantic illusions? "At the jail, all I learned was about...
...comic-pathetic roue in Divorce, Italian Style; a quiet-spoken syndicalist in The Organizer; a trio of Italian males in Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. From these disparate parts emerged the full image of Mastroianni: a sensual, reasonable man, agreeably passive, remarkably resilient, lost and vulnerable behind the mask of bravado. A man who wins, or survives, through a weakness: his ironic understanding that his deceits fool no one and charm all. A Continental Cary Grant, full of comic suavity, but with no guaranteed Hollywood happy endings...