Word: bravados
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...sense of bravado, Cooney was not a particularly courageous child. The first step to the heavyweight championship is always a dreary staircase to some cold, terrifying gym. He did not rush to the climb. "Boxing wasn't my dream," he says. "It was just a sport to me." To his father it was something more. Gerry enjoys likening the Cooneys to the Corbetts in the old Errol Flynn movie Gentleman Jim, and he approves of the nickname "Gentleman Gerry." Had Ward Bond portrayed the father, that would have been Tony Cooney. But Bond played John L. Sullivan...
...fear--not negotiations--are the most effective methods for improving Washington-Managua relations. As the Post source put it, "Nicaraguan fears about U.S. efforts to encourage internal dissidence will soften the Sandinistas up and make them more inclined to negotiate sincerely on the terms we've proposed." Such bravado sounds hauntingly like the rhetoric used to justify the terrific bombing of North Vietnam over a decade ago. U.S. foot-dragging on talks with Nicaragua proves how little the present Administration has learned from the mistakes of past U S foreign policy...
There is a touch of bravado fantasy in these defiant acts, as there is when a white woman journalist solicits sex in exchange for a favorable story. Such a thing is possible, but not likely to occur in the heavyhanded, abject way depicted in the book...
...bravado in telling the press that he had floored two insulting Dodger fans in a hotel elevator during last year's World Series seems to reflect the same willingness to trade the truth for attention. No one, after all, ever found the fans Steinbrenner claims to have punched out. Schaap accounts for the "phantom punch" by suggesting that the bruised fist the owner raised as proof of his triumph actually resulted from Steinbrenner's striking the elevator wall himself, enraged after the Bombers' loss...
...last week brought a frightening reminder of what every journalist in El Salvador knows beneath the bravado: that danger is more than barroom folklore. Four Dutch TV newsmen set out to film rebel encampments near the dusty village of Santa Rita in northern Chalatenango Department. They arrived to meet guerrilla contacts at 5 p.m. Ten minutes later, villagers heard prolonged shooting. Eight people died. The four Dutchmen were shot repeatedly at close range, and their bodies were quickly removed to the capital by Salvadoran soldiers. The army claimed that they died in a firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead...