Word: swaggering
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JuiceboxThe StrokesWhat do you get when you combine five swaggering New York hipsters, rooftop lesbian soft porn, nausea-inducing taxi-cab cunnilingus, and a dirty bathroom stall hookup? There are two possibilities: Finals Club initiation season, or the music video for “Juicebox,” the newest pomp-rock mashup by the Strokes, those loveably trendsetters widely known as the saviors of indie swagger. And let me tell you, my friends, the “Juicebox” video has enough bravado to fill a bathtub or two. Over a pilfered bass riff, the video bounces between...
...Hagan, assisted by backup Richard Irvin, led the team up and down the field, scoring six offensive touchdowns.But the real standout plays came from the defense, which added three interceptions and recovered two fumbles.With its third victory in the last four games, Harvard has begun to show that swagger that led it to a 33-6 mark from 2001-2004. But with Brown’s 38-21 victory over Yale and Princeton’s 30-13 win over Penn, hopes of claiming back-to-back Ivy titles are waning. Both Brown and Princeton have to lose at least...
...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...