Word: swaggers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was something of the old dragoon about Zhukov's stiff, yet colorful, swagger. Says U.S. General James Gavin (who also rose from the ranks) : "He has a hard face, which can break into a wonderful smile. He's a man of the earth, short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...
...with the employees, chief. Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what do you do? Once a week you swagger in with a paycheck") to the college (president to professor: "Nonsense, Professor, you don't need a raise . . . You're too absent-minded to drive a car, too intelligent to want television, and too preoccupied to hear your wife complain"). From Little Acorns. Chicago-born Cartoonist Lichty...
...tired of "shlepping" (roaming the city and looting parked cars), or "window Bopping" (heaving a lead ball through shop windows and hooking merchandise with stiff wires), or summertime "radio fishing'' (prowling rooftops and reeling in radios from open windows by their antennas). they would swagger into one of the local Communist clubs. "We would listen to them spouting off all this stuff we didn't understand. We would sign petitions with phony names. Then all the listening and signing paid off when we took these Communist broads in the back room . . . They believed in free love...
...faculty spirit, and pleasantly at that. The supporting roles are a compendum of unusual types, including Chowderhead Chumley (Stephen Bolster), who is the suede jacket tough man for the Radcliffe operation. Wheareas he tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger), who is a bit rough for a slick politician, although he gives the impression of a man of graft. A sturdy Harvard valiant, Hobart, is portrayed by Thomas Russell, whose voice is enjoyably mellow and clear...
Junior-Executive Swagger. There is never an instant, in fact, when Director Hitchcock is not in minute and masterly control of his material: script, camera, cutting, props, the handsome set constructed from his ideas, the stars he has Hitched to his vehicle. Actor Stewart happily downplays his boyish charm, comes through strongly as Hitchcock's principal agent in creating suspense out of casual incident. Actress Kelly, a Hitchcock worker in Dial M for Murder and now working in his next picture, plays the career girl with a subtle junior-executive swagger, a good deal of wit, and a sort...