Word: swaggered
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THOSE WHO INTERPRET this movie as glorifying mercenaries have missed the point, but their confusion underscores one other theme. Mercenary swagger, the strut of a man loaded down with a gun and with the realization that he is running through the night toward his own death, is very close, almost identical, to the swagger of a revolutionary. Both are tough men; both live too near death to allow for love and compassion, unless it is the kind of love that takes half an hour. When Americans talk about "those barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess...
...Kroks are Preppies. Individually, they may not have spent their formative years in the celebrated sextet of boarding schools, but as a whole the Kroks embody the cultural effluvium of those institutions. They have that easy-to-identify, difficult-to-define social swagger that marks them instantly as embodiments of the best and worst of the Preppie zeitgeist...
...peculiar the plot, Union City tracks its characters' shabby lives and squalid passions so relentlessly that it becomes a portrait of lower-middle-class despair. And Lipscomb's performance is devastatingly acute. His gestures are just too broad, his harsh voice much too loud; Harlan's swagger and insecurity go hand in white-knuckled hand. Lipscomb throws himself into Harlan's impotent pettiness with a vigor that is sometimes hard to watch. It may alienate viewers who have slipped into the theater in search of a Deborah Harry concert and instead found a tongue-in-chic...
...draft, some of those opposed now feel, would actually encourage war: so much cannon fodder would surely tempt the Pentagon and President to swagger, and then to escalate and eventually drive in full plumage into Armageddon. But a contrary logic might just as easily apply: a broadly representative military drawn from every class, without the discrimination inherent in the AVF, would force the military to be more cautious, and sensitive to the democratic will...
...strong emotion, of pure innocence and instinctive cracker-barrel wit. Inside the shy and often childish teen-age girl there is always a glimmer of the powerhouse woman she would become. The craggy-faced Jones makes the most of a role that fully capitalizes on both his redneck swagger and salty charm. The supporting cast is also first-rate. Rock Drummer Levon Helm (formerly of the Band) brings flinty dignity to the role of Loretta's laconic but loving father, and Beverly D'Angelo (who played