Word: bravados
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Essex any opera director might be tempted to swap his Ring cycle for. Bending to one knee in supplication, baring his chest with soldierly bravado, singing with graceful, silvery mastery, Domingo made their touching Act I duet a true meeting of romantic equals...
...ambush for Viet Cong troops. "I knew the V.C. were somewhere nearby because-well, I was in South Viet Nam. Our captain, Captain Medina, wouldn't send me somewhere if I couldn't get a big kill count, right?" For hours nothing happened. Calley's bravado turned to fear when he realized that his inexperienced soldiers had made too much noise to surprise any approaching enemy. "The V.C. must know I'm here. They must be sneaking...
...typical technique was to send a single Cambodian trooper, mounted on a motorcycle, to the site of a border violation. The soldier would race up to the invading troops, wave a Cambodian flag at them and try to persuade them to leave. It is a tribute to Cambodian bravado that the tactic sometimes worked...
...such session in 1946, when the model turned out to be a strapping 6-ft. beauty named Stella, daughter of that week's host. Avery combined pink with burnt sienna, magenta and crimson, with all the jangling dissonance of half a dozen crashing cymbals. It is this bravado with color that has often led him to be viewed as a kind of American Matisse...
...allegory of prewar German history. Although the Von Essenbecks appear to have been modeled rather closely on the Krupps, The Damned is about as potent a parable of Germany as Wagner's Ring cycle, which it outdoes in zestful vulgarity. The actors all perform with an unbridled bravado, the cinematography is properly bilious, and there are enough sex scenes-a good many of them homosexual-to get the movie rated ten-X, like a box of confectioner's sugar. But The Damned deserves the reaction it encourages. It is an outrageous film with awesome pretentions that paradoxically make...