Word: swaggerer
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...spirit. Goin' Down the Road is closer to the intimacies of Marty than to the paranoid swagger of Easy Rider. It is weakest when its score laments "just another victim of the rainbow." It is persuasive and forceful when it studies the social pathology of urban outpatients, men who chivy and moon, boasting of the rural splendors that they once fled, dreaming of the Big Strike, and buying color television sets on time...
...that is every bit as dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...
...heads. Several witnesses later claimed that an officer brought his baton down in a sweeping signal. Said Jim Minard, a sophomore from Warren, Ohio: "I was harassing this officer. I threw a stone at him, and he pointed a .45-caliber pistol at me. He was brandishing a swagger stick. He turned away...
Terrazon, an untrained actor, moves with the swagger of the truly insecure. Surrounding him are other amateurs, including a grandmother (Marie Marc) who manages to define affection in terms that François finally comprehends...
Stevens, who directed Taylor in one of her finest performances, in A Place in the Sun, here provides his star with an artificial stammer and some gross closeups. Beatty's hip swagger gives his part some edge, but it is continually blunted by flat, stagy confrontations that border on the claustrophobic. Occasionally the vulgar energy of Vegas makes itself felt, notably at the gambling tables, where the nervous gaiety breaks down into brilliant rhinestone cackles and suicidal moans. But such moments are rare. For the most part, the audience, like the gamblers, gets taken to the cleaners...