Word: strut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oughta see me strut...
...costs. He cleared his desk at TIME on Saturday, reported to his new office 20 blocks away on Monday. He has already asked Acting Managing Editor Lewis Lapham to stay on. The future? There will be a shift in the editorial mix: rather than encourage writers to strut their stuff unhindered by editorial pencils, as they tended to do under Morris, Shnayerson will edit more tightly. In an effort to crack what he calls "the mystique of the mandarins," Shnayerson will try to get pieces from the experts, then use a small staff of "editors who can translate" to polish...
GEORGE WALLACE. "All energy and strut . . . he has the dingy attractive air of a B-movie idol, the kind who plays a handsome garage attendant . . . He gives little-boy salutes, snapped off at the end, Wash-your-windshield...
...Strut. The first half of the film is devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs...
...speed flyer and Hollywood stunt man; of bone cancer; in Indianapolis. Turner cut an unforgettable figure striding around town in scarlet helmet, cobalt blue tunic and fawn cavalry pants, with his pet lion Gilmore tugging on a leash. Turner's air stunts were no less electrifying; he performed strut-wrenching maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York passenger-plane flight record...