Word: swaggerers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that the lady from Barcelona cannot match...
...under which store managers (average age: 25) earn low salaries but can make up to $30,000 a year through profit sharing and bonuses tied to sales. "I want people who live for and will die for this work," says Tandy, who talks with a kind of cultivated Texas swagger. "If they don't want to do that, then beat it. Let them work for Sears." The system has produced managers such as C.L. Whitfield of the Guam Radio Shack, who journeyed to Japan to pick up new 40-channel CB radios so he could be the first to sell...
...isolation. This interpretive risk pays off, and, except for a few "bigger than life" episodes that don't translate in this true-to-life context, the whole picture comes across with much more sincerity than the Kesey original. And in this troubling, de-romanticized setting Jack Nicholson's swagger says it all about the type of guys who won't play ball: he's the archetypal sharpy who tries to break the bank before he realizes the house has rigged the table...
...that citizens must be free as far as humanly possible from government. There is about most Americans an attitude toward authority which is immensely bracing and which both dazzles and frightens people of other nations. Most Americans show a self-confidence which to others often appears to be mere swagger, but which is the characteristic of a country that never had either a formal aristocracy or a peasantry...
...than buff her nails while listening with annoyance to stories that stop short of raciness with the double entendre that "love grows stronger in proportion as hope diminishes." Prudish as she is, she can still bring off a line about "making it worth your while" with the right swagger...