Word: strut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thesis. Professional historians from Tacitus to Mommsen have cloaked Caesar in dissertations about one-man power, the Roman constitution, and the pros and cons of emperors and empires. On the other hand, Duggan feels no need to give Caesar a coating of grease paint so he can strut the stage. Author Duggan has grasped the elusive obvious, that great men are measured by heritage, not histrionics. As Duggan sees it, Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts: he 1) set the boundaries of Italy just about where they are today, 2) was responsible for the Julian calendar...
...their lives, the dogs awaited the big moment. Stalwart Shelties whimpered and rattled their chains, baboon-faced Afghans paced and snarled, scrappy little Skye terriers yapped through their long hair. Off in a corner, professional handlers gave their charges a last-minute grooming before they went upstairs to strut. Their necks strapped high in dressing stands, long-suffering purebreds submitted to dogdom's final indignity: a beauty treatment. Frisky beagles were primped and powdered like debutantes; embarrassed poodles got a final fluff on the ruthless clipping that had turned them into clowns...
...good many sprightly ensembles have been junked so that the picture's principals (Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse) could strut their uninspired stuff. The story is the same winged little thing, however, and to watch it carry this enormous production is like seeing a butterfly haul a Bulldog Mack...
Said Red of his prospective opponents: "Let these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied...
...wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword-squire strut through London Town to get their pardon of King George I of England...