Word: bravados
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...picture belongs to Brando. The crazy daring, the reckless bravado of his work simply overpowers everything else on the screen. You groan, you shake your head, you laugh wildly at each new lunacy, but you cannot help being fascinated by the man. In the gloomy middle years of his career, he used to demonstrate his contempt for the medium by giving the smallest part of his talents. Now he has apparently decided to give too much, to parody himself. His work in Missouri Breaks is not so much a performance as it is a finger thrust joyously upward...
Smith's most recent intransigence in the face of the unified opposition of the black African states surrounding Rhodesia and decreasing support from South Africa's prime minister, John Vorster, suggests that he expects economic and military aid from outside Africa. A likely cause for his bravado could be an interpretation of Henry Kissinger's recent vows--to oppose further armed Cuban and Soviet intervention in southern Africa--as a statement of American support. Kissinger has, however, recently endorsed the establishment of majority government in Rhodesia...
...once thought "segregating major writers from the general course of literary history simply because of their sex was insulting." Her instincts were right. But trapped in a boondoggle-a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a book on women writers-Moers betrayed her better judgment. With forced bravado, she tucks three centuries of French, English and American authors between the covers of her book, as if she were playing hostess to a slumber party of pen pals...
...Robert Redford and sexy Dustin Hoffman. Jason Robards, playing Bradlee, just about ran away with the movie. Robards played him larger-than-life, carrying the repute of his paper and the fate of the nation on his well-tailored shoulders with almost too much in the way of casual bravado; but then Bradlee plays himself that way sometimes. "I did just great!" cried Bradlee afterward. "I don't know...
...vote-set him back, though he vowed to stay in the race until the end. Said he: "It's just one primary. If I'm slipping, it means that I'll be slipping into the convention with a lot of delegates." Despite the bravado, Wallace was sorely disappointed; the loss indicates that he may be less important at a brokered convention than most Democrats had thought...