Word: brash
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Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, takes a brash, gauche, inflammably youthful would-be actor from a hat-machine factory to some bogus acting-school footlights. The play is sketchy but captivating and Alan Arkin is a clown's clown...
Anyone who hopes to make money in big real estate ventures in the future will have to have enough financial strength to be able to wait a long time for his investment to pay off. It may well be that the days are over when such brash showmen as Zeckendorf could parlay a small stake into millions. The real estate entrepreneurs of the future are likely to be found among insurance companies (which now invest about 3% of their total assets in real estate) and big institutional investors, who will have success simply because they can afford to wait...
...first experimental half an hour of What's Going On Here?, a program of political and social satire syndicated by Metropolitan Broadcasting. What's Going On Here? has taken its inspiration from the BBC's That Was the Week That Was, a brash, barbed, and sophomoric hour of slapslush and clumsy wit that has become the talk of Great Britain this season...
...then there was another part of the prospectus, in which the two young men who were daring to launch this experiment considered brash and unrealistic by most journalists and businessmen who heard about itlisted some of the things that "WE VIEW WITH ALARM." One of them: "The tendency of the Russian Soviet delegation to start rows at Genoa...
Like wolves in winter, the circle of Communist critics tightened around brash young Poet Evgeny Evtushenko last week. The Kremlin announced a full meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee next month to discuss "ideological" matters-meaning the crackdown on Evtushenko and other maverick intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling...