Word: brashest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Remember: Saturday Night Live had become the brightest, brashest success on television, the show to see, and be seen at. Chevy Chase had already made his mark there, and left for Hollywood. John Belushi had brought his brute comic force to Animal House, which pulled down some $150 million at the box office, and he and his buddy Dan Aykroyd were spending off-time starring in Steven Spielberg's home-front destruction derby 1941. Gilda Radner was the country's favorite comedy Kewpie, and Bill Murray, a shambling declension of goofiness, was hoving into view...
...fact that Regan's uncle by marriage happened to be a senior partner was hardly a hindrance, but not even his detractors claim that his rise was based on nepotism. An important mentor was Robert Magowan, son-in-law of Co-Founder Charles Merrill, who described Regan as "the brashest little bastard I've ever seen." When that billing got back to Regan, the 6-ft. ex-Leatherneck protested, "I'm not little...
...chance. Under the direction of John Opel, 58, who became chief executive officer in January 1981, the firm has been acting like its brashest competitors-entering new markets, chasing the latest technology, trimming organizational fat and selling more aggressively than ever. In 1982, IBM had profits of $4.4 billion on sales of $34.4 billion, making it the most profitable U.S. industrial company. Says Stephen McClellan, author of an upcoming book on the computer industry: "In the 1970s, IBM was a battleship in mothballs. Today it is a fleet of killer submarines...
SamShepard, brashest of the "new breed" playwrights, would have us believe this is the typical family in pursuit of the American dream, and nearly succeeds. His Obie-Award-winning Curse of the Starving Class, given its premiere in a strong, spare production by the Reality Theater and the Suffolk Theater Company, batters us with symbolism and seduces us with humanity. It never fails to provoke, but still comes up short of theatrical mastery. Having garnered an Obie and a Pulitzer (for the recent New York production of Buried Child) in two years, Shepard seems on the verge of his finest...