Word: swaggerer
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...spring break became a permanent vacation. I tried to shrug it off, directing my attention to the math team and the Spanish club instead.But a hunky, post-year football player in the trainer’s room soon distracted me from these academic endeavors. He had a public school swagger and a deep-set, brooding stare; we flirted over AIM for weeks (secretly he’s still on my buddy list) and then spent a few afternoons on the bleachers talking about his demanding father, about his difficulty in calculus, and about his disappointment with a losing season...
...began, he brought only a few white T shirts and borrowed the rest of his clothes from wardrobe. Then he shut out anyone and everything that reminded him that he was Joaquin Phoenix. "He came around the corner for this concert scene," recalls Miller, "and he just had the swagger and confidence. He was Johnny Cash--badass. For an amateur like me, it was suddenly clear what real acting...
Nagin has to hope those initial measurements can be altered, and he does seem to have regained a bit of the reassuring and charismatic swagger that got him elected. Sporting silky black knit shirts, he often uses streetwise vernacular in his chats with the city's beleaguered residents. Visiting with a group of small-business owners last week, he urged them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory...
ITHACA, N.Y.—There’s an attitude that comes with being a winner. A swagger, a cockiness—even an arrogance. There’s a feeling that no matter what the circumstances or adversity, the team—collectively—will figure out a way to break through and win. Somewhere between last weekend’s loss at Harvard Stadium to Lehigh and this weekend’s disappointment in Ithaca, the Harvard football team lost that attitude. Think back to last year. Remember the Ivy opener against Brown. The Crimson...
...Crimson didn’t just lose a non-league game last week—a game that has no bearing on Harvard’s pursuit of its second consecutive Ivy title—but it lost its air of invincibility and its swagger...