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Nets players as well as opponents shower him with superlatives. Erving, who will be 24 this month, discusses himself with neither modesty nor bravado: "I feel that I can drive, float, and change direction easily in the air better than most of the other players. It's that freedom of motion that separates me." Another Erving trick: in mid-dribble he palms the ball with his right hand, leaving his left free to fend off opponents, and soars into shooting or passing position without losing a step. The ploy, Erving says, "is quicker and more deceptive. You eliminate...
...life it provides blacks and whites who after hours cross the Mississippi River from nearby St. Louis, Mo., to visit the village's all-night bars. Recently Brooklyn gained another kind of notoriety when it became the scene of a drama full of Western overtones and old-style bravado. TIME Correspondent Barrett Seaman reports...
...compulsively wants to be liked by everybody because he so hates himself; he'll betray anyone when he's drunk or behind closed doors. His bar talk is full of clinging, self-conscious poses--the manner that the most pathetic clowners acquire in adolescence: They learn to copy bravado, but are sensitive enough to see its hollowness. They end up parodying themselves. Charlie's caught between outside pressure to conform to what traditionally held the neighborhood together, and peer pressure; between the pillars of his heritage and the way of life seductively decaying around him. He emerges vain, hypocritical...
...underestimated the force of the Arab assault, largely because of the pervasive overconfidence it had felt since the Six-Day War. Israel assumed that its highly motivated and well-trained troops could easily beat off a double-edged Arab attack, even a surprise attack. In a show of excessive bravado, Israel announced during the first day of fighting that schools would stay in session. The Allenby Bridge from Jordan was kept open to traffic, and, after briefly shutting down, Lod Airport was opened to international traffic. But as the fighting went on, civilian morale began to sag. "Oh God," said...
Another thing that strips back the Breslin bravado (a thing he deals with in his writing) is the "lost possibilities" of people coming out of neighborhoods like Queens. "I love to examine the lost possibilities of guys coming out of these neighborhoods, that never knew, never went anywhere--anything they had got thrown into the wind...