Word: swaggering
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Arnold: The Education of Bodybuilder is a colossal disappointment. It is divided into three parts; the first stringing together simplistic accounts of his competitions. There is no trace of the swagger and sophistication which now make up his act. With his confessions of idolizing Hollywood musclemen and until recently, his inability to appreciate women as anything beyond "sexual tools," one wonders if this book is another one of his dimensions, Schwarzenegger the neanderthal...
...more about his own feverish temperament than about the spirit of the age. The use of Rudolf Nureyev for Rudolph Valentino was canny in conception-both men display an animal magnetism that audiences have found irresistible. But Rudy I had a very different appeal from Rudy II; the Valentino swagger was manifestly a device to hide his vulnerability and naiveté. Nureyev is an athlete, a sophisticated stage performer bewildered only by the demands of the camera, of the English language and of the director. Russell, who might have used Valentino's short, unhappy life as a device...
...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...