Word: swagger
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...cinema, this employment of the Hollywood vixen has been selling movie tickets for decades and no better is this exemplified than with the vivacious, loquacious and sagacious blond bombshell, Ms. Mae West. Long before the most modern set of Hollywood vamps emerged, there was West, who's hip, swinging swagger, sultry double talk and eyelash batting was enough to send Postmaster General Hayes into a censorship tizzy...
...father is that too much gentlemanliness can lose you an election. But his tough-guy stance in last week's interview went too far, suggesting that he might not be mature enough to be President and, worse yet, not mature enough to hide it. If a transcript can swagger, this one did. Graceless under no pressure, Bush made a big point of his refusal to follow polls. Fine, but why the hostility? "May I make something really clear to you once again, and I hope this pleases you. I don't care what the polls say," he told the Times...
...area back, the L.A.P.D. established a special antigang unit, Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, or CRASH. In addition to their weapons and swagger, CRASH officers were armed with a powerful legal tool--sweeping antigang injunctions (since lifted) that gave them free rein to push around suspected gang members. Among the offenses the injunction covered: blocking sidewalks and carrying pagers...
...mysterious: painting was irrevocably changed by the drama and limpid sexuality of Caravaggio's pictures--boys with eyes of precocious longing, fruit heavy with a ripeness so perfect as to be forbidden even as it beckons. Robb's slangy style and streetwise eloquence perfectly convey the originality and ruffian swagger of his subject...
...swagger up the steps, past the gift shop, past the cheesy caf, and bump right smack dab into another security guard, another non-descript accent...