Word: struttingly
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...full year before the 1996 primary season, nine (count 'em) G.O.P. presidential wannabes bundled off to New Hampshire to strut their stuff at a fund raiser. Led by a schmoozy Bob Dole ("I'm a little more realistic, a little more relaxed"), the group, which included Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Education Secretary Lamar Alexander, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, California Congressman Robert Dornan, Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin and ex-State Department official Alan Keyes, took turns bashing Bill Clinton and trying to distinguish themselves from one another...
...downplays his burgeoning popularity. "I don't carry myself like an All-Star," he says. "I carry myself as if I'm a rookie trying to make it in the N.B.A. and be as good as I can be. Look at the way I walk. I don't strut; I don't swagger...
...acting, however, could hardly be improved upon. Especially fine are the performances of Jerome Preston Bates as Floyd, who makes us care about the tortured soul that lies beneath a veneer of strut and swagger; Viola Davis, an eloquent and unaffected Vera; and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who plays the sweet-natured, joyous Canewell as a sort of Mercutio to the lovers' Romeo and Juliet...
Many in the audience who had seen Channing originate the title role whole-heartedly believe that she has only gained in "youthful energy," vocal range and understanding of her character. After 30 years, Dolly will strut her stuff once again on the Great White Way. After the tour of the United States, the cast plans to spread Dolly's message internationally...
...first time ever, students from Cabot. Currier and North Houses will strut their stuff together at a Quad-wide winter formal, house committee members said yesterday...