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Georgia had Lester Maddox and Louisiana had Earl Long, and now Minnesota has gone and got an interesting Governor of our own: a pro wrestler with a shaved head and a bad-boy swagger whose voice is hoarse from bellowing at opponents and threatening to rip their arms from their sockets. He was the protest candidate, a chance to throw toilet paper in the trees and piss off Dad, nobody dreaming he would actually be elected. But in a three-way race the ball takes funny bounces, and that is how Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota's Excellent Ventura | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...project like this? Sporting his grim been-to-hell-and-back look, Woods is filled with an inner intensity that boils out onto the screen. Clad in a leather jacket and Ray Ban sunglasses, unflinching when an entire building blows up behind him, Woods brings the necessary mix of swagger, cool bravado, fearlessness and tightly-coiled anger to the role of Jack Crow. It's a good thing, too, since the supporting cast does not add much. Thomas Ian Griffith makes for a striking, if rather dull, villain, leering savagely but saying little of interest. Daniel Baldwin has a solid...

Author: By William Gienapp, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: John Carpenter's Vampires Has a Bloody Bite | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...tango, but, in the highly competitive circles of fox-trotting and waltzing, there is a science to Accurately Judging Success in Ballroom Dance Couples. It might amuse Dave Letterman to know about the mechanical differences between the airy hip-swaying stride of Richard Simmons and the brusque swagger of Sylvester Stallone; the information is right at his finger-tips in Gait Differences and Sexual Orientation: Evidence from Dynamic Point-Light Displays...

Author: By Eloise D. Austin, | Title: JUMPING THROUGH HOOPES | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...Mountain Hawks, on the other hand, werefull of the requisite swagger...

Author: By Zachary T. Ball, | Title: Ball Four | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Griffey professes modesty, and is admired by teammates for his selflessness, but he also has the swagger that seems required of men who would do what no one else can. "I just go out there and do what I'm supposed to do," he says. "If we need a home run to tie it up late, I've got to do it." Want proof? Before an at bat against Texas last week he revealed to a teammate that he was about to hit one out. He took two pitches and then sent the ball into the second deck. But there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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