Word: bravado
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...shrug. Late one evening last March, he and a few friends crept up to a house and took several potshots. "I saw this dog sitting on a couch in this big window above the front porch, so I just shot him." Doug's expression is devoid of remorse or bravado as he drives by the brown, two-story house, recounting the incident one afternoon. A teenage girl with long brown hair sits on the porch reading. The outer walls of the house are still pocked with pellet holes. "I'm not sure what kind...
...disarray is clearly not going to be quieted with conciliatory rhetoric - or stand-tough bravado. The challenge facing all members of the peacekeeping team is not only how to bring stability to Somalia but also how to devise successful formulas for undertaking a more active role in post-cold war peacemaking. Even if the Loi furor is smoothed over, the real debate has just begun...
Rescue will be under tight scrutiny because pro-life radicals stand accused of neglecting their quest's spiritual side and turning to bravado and brutality. In Milwaukee, not a Refuge city, one of the newer forms of protest is "speed-bumping" -- throwing oneself under the cars of patients headed for clinics. Local doctors have received death threats in person, and bullets were fired through a clinic window last week. Declares pro-choicer Joan Clark: "The blockaders are not from here. They're all from somewhere else, and they're paid by the missionaries. They're thugs, and they travel...
...Fogg drops his straight-laced lifestyle and starts to dance the hot Spanish number performed in the third scene, throwing all propriety, consistency, and logic to the wind. A balloon holding Gitano comes crashing with great bravado like a deus ex machina through the roof of the stage, and, with a load of Irish children, a Chinese dragon, and a cheerleader, the grand finale is performed as a bewildering spectacle of confusion. Like a ride through "It's a Small World," Eighty Days is choppy but full of energy, disappointing on the order of the musical but impressive...
Back when he was running one of the hottest banks in Belgrade, before its * spectacular collapse last month, Jezdimir Vasiljevic was known for his financial bravado, his wild ties and his even wilder statements. But last week the stocky and shadowy man known as "Jezda the Boss" was holed up in Israel, condemning Serbian aggression in the Balkan war and hatching plans to preside over a government-in-exile. Such grandiose schemes come naturally to Vasiljevic, 45, the maverick entrepreneur who sponsored last year's Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match in Yugoslavia and has variously been suspected of everything...