Word: swaggers
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THEY RIPPED OFF THE BEST BITS of Franz Ferdinand and the Strokes--speed, swagger and hooks upon hooks--but instead of hipster navel gazing, Arctic Monkeys' singer Alex Turner looked at the world with a working-class smirk and turned a number of memorable phrases. ("There's only music/ So that there's new ringtones.") The first rock album in ages that feels dangerously smart...
First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Vibes! It’s all about his swagger...
...basketball team struggled, winning just one of its next four games. A thrilling 83-81 overtime victory against the University of New Hampshire on Wednesday coupled with a win against Colgate tomorrow would give the Crimson a three-game winning streak—and help get its swagger back. “Stringing together a couple wins, to gut out a close game like that, and on the road, is kind of a double whammy,” senior captain Jim Goffredo said after the game on Wednesday. And for Harvard, whose road wins have been few and far between...
DIED. Ruth Brown, 78, Big Band singer turned R&B diva, known for her seductive delivery and ability to sway between tenderness and swagger; in Las Vegas. In the 1950s the fledgling Atlantic Records--for whom she recorded hits like Teardrops from My Eyes and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean--was called "the house that Ruth built." After a 25-year lull, she won new fans in the '80s, performing in the Broadway stage revue Black and Blue and winning a Grammy for the 1989 album Blues on Broadway...
...Swagger: President Bush should give a speech to the U.N. in which he calls on other nations to either support the new Iraq or stop providing support and weapons to insurgents and militias; declares that most fundamental goals in Iraq were achieved, but the hope of democracy in Iraq is in the balance and only the Iraqis can determine that outcome; reminds the U.N. that lack of support for the peaceful option - smart sanctions - was doomed to failure when they were undermined by many in the audience; implicitly threatens that if nations contribute to instability and violence in Iraq, they...