Word: arrogante
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By rights, I Been There Before--the title is the last sentence of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn--should seem arrogant, pretentious and convoluted. It involves dozens of characters, five or six distinct plots and more than three dozen "documents" supposedly written by Twain and his interpreters, some of them...
Oh, why not? No matter what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says, they could just as well have met as schoolboys. And it is more than likely that the twigs that grew into the sturdiest oaks of detective fiction were bent way back when: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) brainy and arrogant...
Finding and keeping a good distributor can be crucial. Consider how Schick captured its sizable share of Japan's $200 million safety-razor market. In the early 1960s, Schick and its rival Gillette began selling their razor blades in Japan. Both faced keen competition from Feather, a Japanese manufacturer. Schick...
Simon's Boudu is often described as prehippie; Nolte's Jerry, it figures, is posthippie. But the effect is the same. He is gloriously rude, insufferably arrogant. He dislocates respectable convention with everything from his table manners to his sexual morality, eventually bedding every female in the house, including the...
Your report on the class of '05 tragically illustrates how history tends to repeat itself. Today another young, idealistic generation is being fed into a vague, brutal war machine by an arrogant, self-righteous U.S. Administration. Forty years ago, the West Point classes of the '60s were sent to Southeast...