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...Bruce Lee films, he studied kung fu techniques. In his first TV job, as host of the daytime show Space Shuttle 430, he learned how to amuse kids with sly jokes and an impudent eloquence in body language. He became a film star as the little guy with false bravado who lucks into hero status. That's the formula here, but this time Chow doesn't take center stage until the last half an hour. Instead he uses his old comic style--mixing deadpan delivery with wild visual gags--to create an elegant directorial approach...
It’s all gun smoke and bravado from Shawn Haviland, Harvard’s young freshman hurler, who owns a 4-1 record in five collegiate starts...
...bravado undiminished, Konrad Kujau, confessed forger of the notorious Hitler diaries, awaited the verdict of a Hamburg court by scrawling facsimiles of the Fhrer's signature. Kujau's mood grew more somber when Judge Hans-Ulrich Schroeder declared him guilty, along with former Stern magazine Reporter Gerd Heidemann, of defrauding Stern of $3.8 million between 1981 and 1983. The German weekly had purchased 60 volumes of the phony diaries in what it billed as the "scoop of the post-World...
Such a statement intentionally blurs the line between truth and bravado. Hannah's speakers, Southerners almost to the man, habitually treat language as action, words as deeds. Roger Laird, the hero of Getting Ready, worries over his many and expensive failures to catch "a significant fish." Finally, some 30 miles south of Panama City, he manages to haul in a sand shark from the surf. Though it lacks the grandeur he had imagined, this experience proves exhilarating enough to lead him to his life's next great task. He moves to Dallas, builds a pair of 8-ft. stilts...
Furthermore, the performances in “Carousel” run the gamut from forgettable to very solid. Evan D. Siegel ’07 as the male lead, the cocky carousel barker Billy Bigelow, lopes about the stage with a plausible bravado and carries his tunes well enough; Siegel is genuinely striking in his “Soliloquy” at the end of Act I, though his character’s development from immaturity to emotional earnestness comes off as a little forced. The chemistry between Siegel and his love interest, the long-suffering Julie Jordan (Jennifer...