Word: bravado
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...EVACUATION OF Massachusetts Hall by Afro and PALC yesterday displayed once again the timing and organization which have characterized their seven-day occupation of the building. The exit was carried out with style and bravado. Unfortunately, the cohesiveness of Afro and PALC has not extended to the Harvard strike, which has fallen into complete disarray. Tuesday night, after rejecting a motion to continue the strike in its present form, over one sixth of the persons at the Sanders Theatre strike meeting voted to reconsider the question. It then passed by a 324-190 margin, and the meeting adjourned after...
...MAKE A MAN OF YOU! Pacino makes Pavlo a walking antipersonnel device, a Bouncing Betty that chops his foes, and himself, off at the crotch. Pacino's previous roles (most conspicuously, Michael in The Godfather) have blazed with a menace that he now transforms into a quivering, infantile bravado, a would-be Lieut. Galley, played for explosive laughs. The only buddy he rescues is a dead one. The only atrocity he achieves is the terrified gunning down of a single old man. The only fight he wins is with another G.I. "Did I do it to him? The Triple...
...brought his bravado to Washington in 1945. There he brazenly ignored the House's unwritten racial-discrimination rules, which docile Chicago Congressman William L. Dawson, a Daley subaltern and the only other black House member when Powell arrived, had quietly accepted. Powell spoke out on behalf of civil rights and enjoyed skirmishes with fellow House members, Senators and even Presidents. He created a new image for blacks in Harlem and across the country. Before his first term was completed, he was a national figure. His was a widely heard voice in Congress supporting equal opportunity for blacks, and blacks...
McGovern's camp, which is formidably organized in Wisconsin, always contended that the race would eventually narrow down to their man and Hubert. To staffers still preparing offensives against Muskie, McGovern Adviser Frank Mankiewicz scoffed last week with perhaps premature bravado: "You're firing torpedoes into the hulk of the Graf Spec...
...theory persists that her memo, which claimed wide-ranging contacts and influence, was sheer bravado, "papering a job" with a name-dropping report to convince an employer that his interests are getting extensive and impressive care. Said one senior lobbyist: "For a job like this, one does not hire a $30,000-a-year flunky to swing a billion dollar deal." Besides, he added, "You never, never write it down. That's the first rule of the business...