Word: swaggering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at Alain Delon (the delicate stud of Purple Noon) or Dennis Hopper (who gave Ripley a cowboy swagger in the 1977 The American Friend, Wim Wenders' adaptation of Ripley's Game) and see an actor sharpening his tools: the attentiveness, the useful smile, the waiting for a cue to make his move. Ripley watches Dickie, and an actor prepares. We watch the actor playing Ripley and learn the secrets of his duplicitous craft. It's as if a famous seducer had made a how-to video...
...risking life and limb is simply one more game. The charade is pervasive, as Ulrich looks entirely out of place in his Civil War era costume, especially given his role in Scream. Maguire tries entirely too hard to appear genuinely Southern, for even his gait is a self-conscious swagger...
...alter ego: $wank. It was tagged on me by my blocking group. I'll introduce myself as Aaron, but a friend will come up and say you didn't go through four years of $wank school to be called Aaron. The first definition of $wank is smooth with a swagger walk. OK, fine. The second definition is showy but at the same time endearing, kinda like my grandfather. I'm a little bit of the Hollywood type....I'm the Playboy on-campus rep. You get a party budget, you hand out T-shirts to see what the mood...
...answer is that Barkley, more than anyone, revolutionized the power forward position and gave the NBA a fresh, honest and funny voice. He gave the fans somebody to laugh at, but he wasn't a goof-off. He was the anti-Jordan, a player who played with neither swagger nor grace...
...pink and green wallpaper covered with cows' heads, like an advertisement for milk gone mad. On it, in clashing hues, is the artist's portrait of Elvis, gun drawn, off register, multiplied by four like a drunken vision. He stares you down, that famously curling lip, with all the swagger and pow of Pop's sardonic message: how a world of glossy goods and superstars is way more gripping than the prayerful hum of our inner lives...