Word: swaggering
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...Another, of course, is that he is a very skillful writer whose love songs have both the toughness and the solid sentimentality of film noir. A tune like the title track is a very neat piece of backbeat sleight of hand. It starts out like a celebration of male swagger ("He said goodbye and just walked right out the door"), then turns into a deft bit of deflation ("He looked so good he must have practiced it before"). Songs like this have the grit to make the long run. -By Jay Cocks
...Scotty, Bauer has an oversized Jaw and a confident swagger. He provides a sharp contrast to Mickey's rather nerdy, sheepish husband. Bauer is at his best when he plays t he symbolic usurper: a furtive and shadowy man who captivates the lonely Mickey. But when he tries to demonstrate any-complexity, he talks out of the side of his mouth and mumbles his lines Barbara Williams' confusion is more appropriate, as she struggles with shallow lines and her growing interest in the interloper...
...Claudius in TV's I, Claudius, the grace and pain beneath the raillery in Much Ado. But Cyrano is extraordinary, unique; his heart and his compulsive excellence set him apart from other mortals more than his prominent proboscis. Jacobi, for all his energetic resourcefulness, has neither the swagger nor the stature for the part. He commandeers the stage with his ambition to fill the role, but his shortcomings are as plain as the nose on Cyrano's face. -By Richard Corliss
...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...
...during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted during the Olympics. But do we have it because we feel it or because they tell us to feel it?" Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman in the Carter Administration, believes that there is indeed a new swagger in the American walk but is not sure he approves. "Patriotism is back," he wrote last month in the Wall Street Journal, "as everyone seems fond of saying these days, and more power to it-I think. Depending on how you define it, patriotism can be a healthy love...