Word: swaggerers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing in his background as a journeyman Middle Western politician prepared him for the kind of decisions he had to make in the White House. Yet he made those choices, without swagger or rhetoric. (It is typical that he called his Administration the Fair Deal. Not Great. Not Big. Just Fair.) Without that extraordinary scheme for giving, the Marshall Plan, Western Europe might never have survived as a community of free, capitalist democracies. A case could be made that the civil rights movement began with Truman's tough, ten-point message to Congress in 1948, which created the Federal...
...warrior Neocle, revealed a stupefying coloratura technique and an enormous range of vocal textures. While Sills obviously paced herself carefully throughout the three acts. Verrett let loose in her first aria and blazed to the end at full capacity. She was gloriously confident, full of defiance and swagger, and poured out her ten-minute solo aria in the third act with the beauty that comes from inexhaustible strength. As it turned out, she had a mob of fans in the audience to rival Sills's; the Sills people were wildly adoring but the Verrett people were fierce--they had more...
...hint of a paunch on his 5-ft. 10-in., 195-lb. frame. He has a smooth, unscarred face despite his 18 warring years in the net. (The masks he has worn for the past 14 years have absorbed 30 direct hits.) And he has none of the swagger that might be expected from a fearless goalie. He got cold feet on the eve of his wedding and went hunting in the Canadian Rockies (the wedding was postponed three months). He is scared by flying or even riding...
...combining a marvellous sleepwalking trance and deceptive, wide-eyed childishness, with sudden, apparently unaccountable changes of mood. The opportunist son-in-law (Don Guiney) is portrayed as too much of an arch-villain, overly conspiratorial, first with one side and then the other, weilding his cane about like a swagger stick. The pity that Strindberg felt for such a pathetic victim of the vampire mother is buried under Guiney's excessive eye-shifting and oiley immorality...
...wife says "You've been with Kagle today." (Kagle is Slocum's limping co-worker). And he says, "How do you know?" So he didn't know he's picking up a limp. Now that, I think, is surrealistic. I think a person might develop a strut or a swagger, that of somebody else with whom he associates, but certainly not a limp. whom he associates, but certainly not a limp...