Word: swagger.
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...smooth player. "Staffs come to resemble their members," says a senior congressional aide. "Condit's office had a kind of Steve McQueen cool. They were Blue Dogs" - members of the Conservative Democratic Coalition - "and on top of the world in a closely divided House. They had a kind of swagger, but in a good way. Everybody liked them...
...These days Dayton has lost his swagger. As the Chandra Levy case drags on, Dayton finds himself under the hot lights along with his boss. Law-enforcement officials have questioned Dayton about whether he tried to hinder their investigation. Dayton denies any such thing. Still, he has retained a top Washington criminal-defense lawyer, Stanley Brand. Another top Condit aide, chief of staff Mike Lynch, who publicly denied the affair in the weeks before Condit admitted it to the police, has hired ex?Timothy McVeigh prosecutor Beth Wilkinson. (Lynch has not been questioned recently, a source tells TIME.) Suddenly...
Evil drops in with that surprising air of nonchalance and swagger that Satan affects at the start of the Book of Job, when the sons of God come to present themselves before the Lord, and the Lord says to Satan, "Whence comest thou," and Satan, with his evasive, insinuating smirk, replies, "From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down...
...Wrote the giddy 24-year-old in an e-mail: "I know I was a stud in NYC but I pretty much get about, on average, five to eight phone numbers a night and at least three hot chicks that say they want to go home with me." His swagger went on and on. "The second bedroom is for my harem of chickies ... someone's gotta start FedExing me boxes of domes (condoms)... I brought out about 40 but I think I'll run out of them by Saturday." What Chung didn't consider were the distribution possibilities inherent...
Getting bored in the bedroom? Maybe it's time to consult the Kama Sutra and go back to the drawing board for a new position or two. As Married Lust: 10 Secrets of Long-Lasting Desire by Pamela Lister and Redbook magazine put it, with Martha Stewart swagger, "After all, would you spend hours preparing fabulously creative hors d'oeuvres for a dinner guest, only to go dump the same old tuna casserole on him? Having a range of sexual positions is not only a perfect antidote to the encroaching dullness of routine, but it allows you to decide what...