Word: swaggerers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. The books belong to the smart money; the reason for their action is The Last Movie* by Dennis Hopper-the same Dennis Hopper who recently opened the checkbook:, with Easy Rider. The faults of that film are legendary-the paranoid swagger, the inept drug trips, the comicbook heroism. But the film also shared with other examples of naive art an undisciplined energy and a curious magnetism. Its minuscule production cost (under $500,000) and giant grosses (over $50 million) made it the Volkswagen of the American film...
...involved in the whole messy business in the first place When Ayub Khan yielded the presidency to him two years ago, Yahya switched from khaki to dark business suits, which he still wears with obvious discomfort. As if to emphasize his longing for the barracks, he occasionally carries a swagger stick and misses no chance to play the simple, straight-talking soldier...
...actor, the pitfall in recent years has been to regard Othello as a racially conscious black instead of the Elizabethan he always was and always will be. Thus Olivier was the embodiment of a calypso Othello, with a Caribbean accent and swagger. The highly stylized, slightly exotic Othello of Moses Gunn might have been a Cotton Club dandy. In the current revival at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, James Earl Jones makes of Othello a wounded animal, a Jack Johnson in agonized decline...
...gone. Intimates insisted that illness was not a factor. He did quit his latest film in November because of a painful constriction in his hand, but surgery supposedly has corrected that. He is back on the golf course and still moves with the old deliberate cock-of-the-walk swagger. With his hair transplant and added poundage, he looks healthier-but worse -than the peaked kid with the caved-in cheeks who played the Paramount...
...Priapic Swagger. Unlike the Impressionists, Gauguin did not paint what he saw: he chose to see what he wanted to paint. And his ideas on what was paintable grew out of other art-from the broad color patches and rhythmic line of Japanese cloisonne and wood block prints, from rural Breton sculpture and the flattened, monumental figures of a French artist he greatly admired, Puvis de Chavannes. Style absorbed him -not only the priapic swagger and ebullience of his own lifestyle, but the pervasive feedback of art style into nature. Even the fierce colors which scandalized some of his contemporaries...