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Just as eye-filling are the new mesh suits. With a now-you-see-me-now-you-don't magic, the mesh meets the flesh in various gradations of bravado-across the midriff, along the sides, and over necklines that dip to the navel. In its most exotic form, the mesh suit makes its owner look like a mermaid who could not-or did not want to-wriggle out of someone's fishnet. Cole of California has already turned out 200,000 mesh suits and is still far short of meeting the demand. Not even the fact that...
...odds), the dapper Frenchman sashayed back and forth on his rope, drinking champagne (he once cooked an omelet 150 ft. above the falls), turning somersaults, pushing a wheelbarrow while riding a bicycle, even carrying his manager across on his back. Once Blondin stumped across on stilts, a display of bravado that won him $400 from the future King Edward...
...clear that Clay has developed considerably since the last fight in Miami. Not only is he in peak physical condition, he has the self-confidence now which was only bravado last year. But Clay's strategy will be essentially the same: stay away from Sonny and let him beat himself. In Miami Liston charged out of his corner like a wild bull elephant intent on polishing off the challenger as quickly as possible. Clay ran, ducked, sidestepped, and counterpunched with dexterity. Though Liston was forced to quit in the seventh round after injuring his arm, Clay's strategy had worked...
...General's regal bearing amounts to much more than theatrical bravado. "Despite haughty denials, shrugs of the shoulder, feigned indignation, General De Gaulle is, by temperament, a monarchist." Viansson-Ponte believes that if De Gaulle could restore the French throne he would gladly do so. But as a matter of practical policy he is resigned to democratic forms, if not to democratic substance, in French politics. This in no way diminishes the General's self-esteem...
...process, Eugen was to revolutionize the set-piece siege warfare of the day. Among his trademarks: deploying cavalry the way Rommel was later to use panzers, pressing a campaign year-round instead of just in the summer season, and an inspiring (if reckless) bravado that was to get him wounded in action 13 times...