Word: bravadoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That he gets carried away is part of his appeal, yet his razzmatazz does not charm or convince all listeners. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman finds Iacocca's "showmanship" distasteful. "Somewhere between the excessive caution of most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese...
...axis, Belgium's Fighting Communist Cells has staged eight bomb attacks since last October, including the multiple blasts that damaged a NATO fuel pipeline in December. France can no longer expect to be spared the terrorism that afflicted West Germany and Italy a decade ago. In a show of bravado, Action Directe and the R.A.F. last month jointly announced a "political-military front in Western Europe." The declared enemy: NATO...
Like Chris and Daulton, the movie must escape the society it loathes before it can soar or score. The Soviet embassy in Mexico City is alive with swarthy-suave, worldly-wise apparatchiks (led by David Suchet), alternately amused and baffled by the bravado of Daulton (Sean Penn), a kid who has always had his way and cannot be intimidated by any old nuclear power. "O.K.," he barks when they cross him, "from now on I do my business with the Chinese!" Sporting a cad's mustache and Walter Denton's whiny voice, Penn is a funny, harrowing wonder of energy...
Behind this austere facade, Ackroyd finds a tormented and divided soul. Eliot shied away from attention while courting it with Machiavellian skills. Ezra Pound, another American expatriate, aptly nicknamed him "Old Possum." Pound had tried and failed to take over literary London through energy and bravado; Eliot succeeded through diffidence and self-denigration. He invited sympathy; friends who knew he was overworked were startled to see him wearing a green face powder that accentuated his cadaverous pallor. Yet he repulsed those who tried to ease his burdens; several plans to raise money that would free Eliot of his bank duties...
...together essentially unrelated works with a single object: Rod Serling and his cigar made a career out of it. The only way to transcend cliche is to go for it: modesty is no virtue in conceptual art. Duncan's mediocre ambition appears in every picture, while the overreaching bravado of hauling two red couches in a van for four years is captured in nearly every shot. Inevitably, the quality comes from the men and not the metaphor