Word: swagger.
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Nearly every visitor to France has seen them: lean men in red berets, with open collars and rolled-up sleeves, who walk with the self-conscious swagger of a military elite. They are French paratroopers, who both defend De Gaulle's Fifth Re public and threaten to destroy it. This engrossing novel, by ex-Paratrooper Jean Lartèguy, 40, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in France, examines at length the fury and frustration animating this brotherhood...
...rest of the world gobble up Italian products that the nation's balance-of-payments surplus is the envy of the U.S. Treasury. Buoyed by these achievements, North Italian businessmen, who once argued that they could hold their home markets only with the help of protectionism, today swagger forth on a Common Market invasion of the rest of Europe with all the self-assurance of the Caesars...
...Shakespeare by the flash of a lightning bug. Drake is more than a star; he is a galaxy. Whether he is profile-preening for an expected lady love, slashing the air with his fencing foil, or parrying insults with the Prince of Wales, he has all the darkling dash, swagger and brio of a Renaissance man. He pours his voice like nut-brown ale through a melodic sieve of a score...
...Wachuku's debut as Nigeria's new Foreign Minister, and the verbal swagger reflected his country's pride in being Africa's most populous nation (40 million). It also reflected the fact that the new, half-civilized African states do not enter the world stage with any shyness. Only one year after his land reached nationhood, Wachuku could stand before the U.N. to lecture the world: "I am serving notice..." (to South Africa), "Things we want..." (from Portugal...
...them, Myra Rubin (who plays both Athena and Tecmessa) even manages to come through because of it, for she has a graceful and compelling sense of metre that in itself expresses the sweet grief that Sophocles wanted to express. Donald Lyons as Menelaus uses a different technique; he swaggers with impressive competence both in voice and manner, and that is all Menelaus demands. He runs into trouble as soon as he puts on a longer beard to appear again as Agamemnon; he can't swagger anymore, and he stands still and speaks inaudibly...