Word: swaggering
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ITHACA, N.Y.—There’s an attitude that comes with being a winner. A swagger, a cockiness—even an arrogance. There’s a feeling that no matter what the circumstances or adversity, the team—collectively—will figure out a way to break through and win. Somewhere between last weekend’s loss at Harvard Stadium to Lehigh and this weekend’s disappointment in Ithaca, the Harvard football team lost that attitude. Think back to last year. Remember the Ivy opener against Brown. The Crimson...
...Crimson didn’t just lose a non-league game last week—a game that has no bearing on Harvard’s pursuit of its second consecutive Ivy title—but it lost its air of invincibility and its swagger...
Blending into the pattern of a film's tapestry, surrendering star swagger to teamwork, is a tendency that comes naturally to this native of Pleasantville-like Chelsea, Mich. At New York City's Circle Repertory Theater in the late 1970s and early '80s, Daniels was trained to be "part of an ensemble," not stand out from it. He admits he had to be nudged by Woody Allen to "go on, go on, go on"--be bigger, bolder--in the role of the 1930s actor who literally steps off the screen in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and pushed by Jonathan...
...government into action, but many of his broadcasts since then-most notably, his controversial decision to let 180,000 residents and business owners back into New Orleans this week, before the approaching Hurricane Rita led him to reconsider-haven't been as well received. His tall, movie star-handsome swagger seems rattled as he limits his public appearances and complains, as he did to a group of state legislators this week, that he's "getting more criticism than God knows...
There are two kinds of courage in Table Money. Owney's is physical, as he displayed in Viet Nam by winning a Congressional Medal of Honor. Dolores proves her valor by overcoming generations of inertia and fatalism. She does it by demonstrating that behind the male swagger there is usually an unsteady little boy in need of a firm maternal hand. When a neighborhood Rambo threatens to shoot at police from his window, Dolores arms herself with a basket of wet wash and gets him to help her hang it: "She held her hand out and Ralphie gave...