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...apparent lies. He brains the poor kid with a lamp and then proceeds to trash the set in a fine display of uncontrolled rage. This moment of Brando-esque pique is genuinely frightening, but somewhat inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy, and so the ending, which features a confused Donny cradling the slightly dented Bobby in a touching Pieta pose, is ultimately unsatisfying and vaguely weird...
Pippin eventually decides to match his brother's bravado and joins his father's army. He cannot seem to take army life any more seriously than a game of Risk, and becomes deeply disillusioned when he sees his father and his men look forward to the Visigoth war. To top off the victory, his father announces, "We can rape the women!" Pippin is left somewhat aghast...
...hell of a lot as a councilor and I am very effective," Vellucci says confidently, exhibiting a little of the bravado that for a number of years has made him gold newspaper copy and a colorful mayor...
...Christmas list. While 3,000 AFL-CIO leaders cheered, President George Meany, 83, declared that the Government should spend billions to create millions of jobs; should refuse to cut taxes on business; and should limit imports. "Free trade," he declared, is "a joke and a myth." But the familiar bravado had a hollow ring, for organized labor is in trouble. Its leadership is out of step with a nation that is increasingly worried about inflation and annoyed over Government controls. Beyond that, labor confronts a U. S. President who is not all that friendly and a rank and file that...
...take him-and his timing was fortuitous. His year in the country coincided with some of the war's fiercest struggles-Tet and the battle for Hue, the siege at Khe Sanh and the Viet Cong's May 1968 Saigon offensive. Although he regularly cursed his own bravado, Herr made a point of being wherever the action was hottest, convinced that the war's "secret history" must exist there: "Somewhere on the periphery of that total Viet Nam issue whose daily reports made the morning papers too heavy to bear, lost in the surreal contexts of television...