Word: swagger
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...background for the conflict, the town is a believable combination of small time cafe and bar, dinky shops and shaggy park. In the tavern cyclists gleefully guzzle beer while Brando strides about with an alley cat swagger, convincing the town and audience he harbors a grudge against the world in general. Center of his interest is Mary Murphy, playing a tousled, mixed-up waitress, who asks "Isn't it all crazy?" As her father, the local cop, Robert Keith sometimes seems to worry more about his part than his inability to cope with the disturbance. But he does well...
...Good Soldier Thimayya unflinchingly accepted responsibility for Nehru's decision. "Any agreement, General?" called out one U.N. newsman, as Thimayya sludged through Panmunjom's melting snow the day Nehru's stand was announced. "No, no agreement," he replied, "just unilateral action." "By whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right." The U.N. Command, gratified at least that its principle of voluntary non-repatriation would be upheld, replied that it would accept the P.W.s as quickly as Thimayya could turn them over. Then Commanding General John Hull told India, straightforwardly, that he would...
...more usual than unique. In the title role, Richie Andruseu, a Brooklyn seven-year-old, believe that he has killed his twelve-year-old brother. To avoid the police, he escapes by subway to coney Island where the mechanics of the plot almost vanish and the delightful swagger and expressions of Andruseu emerge. AT first he saunters along the amusement park pavement in awe--youthfully oblivious to the crime he thinks he has committed. Subtly, the camera follows him through the unsympathetic crowds to the rides and refreshment counters. It catches his disappointment when his fast ball fails to topple...
...Eisenhower's speech, it would be hard for an enemy to find a sign of weakness, just as hard for the timid and the neutralists to find bluster or swagger. By stating the American position more vigorously than ever before he had summoned the nations to face with resolution the appalling fact that Communism and The Atom exist in the same world...
...absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily free of both Benton's swagger and Wood's snigger...