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Word: swagger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elephantiasis of the ego. The star tenor tends to swagger in company as well as on stage; he is quite sure that women have a yen for him-and so, usually, is his wife. He lords it over his colleagues and is inclined to feel that he need not rehearse with the rest of the cast. Like most singers, he thinks he is better than the impresario does, and demands starring roles too early in his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Much Ado About Tenors | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Members of The Blue Rider aspired to nothing less than painting the essence of things. They put feeling first, faithfulness to nature or to formal conventions last. They were the clear, sweet dawn of German expressionism, a school that later languished from too much heaviness, bitterness and swagger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gentle Expressionist | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Viva Zapata | 11/10/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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