Word: swagger.
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...with no devotion to either side, with no goal other than rebellion and death. Joseph Wiseman fulfills this role with a calm fanaticism, breaking his shell of assurance with sudden bursts of excitement. Zapata's brother is equally reckless, but Anthony Quinn plays the part in an amusing swagger, lifting skirts as easily as spirits. In the feminine lead, Jean Peters is lively and tender as Brando's pet, although she occasionally succumbs to traces of soap opera sentiment...
Michael Rennie carries conviction as the Franciscan, not least because he has, as dressed and tonsured, a close resemblance to the Bellini portrait of St. Francis. Best of all is Anthony Quinn, who wears the conquering swagger of Castile like one to that overbearing manner born...
There was something of the old dragoon about Zhukov's stiff, yet colorful, swagger. Says U.S. General James Gavin (who also rose from the ranks) : "He has a hard face, which can break into a wonderful smile. He's a man of the earth, short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...
...with the employees, chief. Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty...
...tired of "shlepping" (roaming the city and looting parked cars), or "window Bopping" (heaving a lead ball through shop windows and hooking merchandise with stiff wires), or summertime "radio fishing'' (prowling rooftops and reeling in radios from open windows by their antennas). they would swagger into one of the local Communist clubs. "We would listen to them spouting off all this stuff we didn't understand. We would sign petitions with phony names. Then all the listening and signing paid off when we took these Communist broads in the back room . . . They believed in free love...