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Captain Jack (Andreas Teuber) is less convincing. He has all of the pay-cock's swagger, color, and noise--and just a bit too much of this last: do all Irishmen shout quite as much as the ones on the Loeb stage?--but he has so little of the necessary humor. He probably shouts simply to obscure his brogue which is obscure, but my goodness, man, that's no way to tell a joke. Kenneth Tigar shouts his jokes too, but that's because he realizes they are all basically the same joke (he is asked to call everything "Darlin...
...satire, inflation deflates, and the Fringe troupe uses this tactic brilliantly in a parody of Shakespeare's chronicle plays. After a nonsensically high-flown prologue, the nobles swagger on in giddily foppish hat creations, and promptly get flummoxed in the Bard's hopelessly entangling military alliances...
...senselessly clubbed another boy to death. There was a public outcry for a hanging, and the boy was duly sentenced to die, but not before Rogers, a lifelong foe of capital punishment, had fought the case to the Supreme Court with tenacity and eloquence. Beneath Rogers' malarkey, his swagger and his courtroom stunts was a real compassion for the outcasts of the world. "Who are we to take life, life given to this man by whatever power gives life?" he demanded. "To rob him of his chance to repent, to expiate, to throw him straight into hell like...
Boccaccio '70 (RCA Victor). The sinewy music written by Composers Nino Rota and Armando Trovajoli for the celebrated Italian peep show. In its several parts it manages to combine French swagger with Latin languor-an accomplishment that puts it several notches ahead of mail-order Hollywood prescriptions...
...railed against the fears of the West. "Counting on the cowardice and apprehensions of the Western Powers," he wrote in an article about Czar Nicholas I, "he bullies Europe, and pushes his demands as far as possible . . . If, at the outset, [England and France] had proved that bluster and swagger could not impose on them, the Autocrat would have for them a very different feeling from that contempt which must now animate his bosom...