Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harassment. Directing the campaign for the Irish government is Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley, 33, a brash political fighter whose antipathy toward the I.R.A. was sharpened by the recent bombing of his father-in-law's pub just north of the border. Under O'Malley's authority, the government has prosecuted more than 100 I.R.A. men on various charges, tightened controls on firearms and explosives, and last month raided and padlocked the Provisional Sinn Fein offices in Dublin. This week the government will present to the Irish Parliament a bill that seeks to redefine membership...
Young Winston does make a pretense of revealing some of the less attractive sides of Churchill's personally, but does so in a shallow, journalistic sense which avoids the darker recessed of a very complex man. The young Churchill was brash, egocentric, wholly absorbed in his political career. He blatantly infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal...
Obviously on the run, a black youth named Randall bursts into the shop as Glas, its aged, stony, tight-lipped owner is absorbed in taking inventory. Randall, who boasts an I.Q. of 185, and who, in his brash bellicosity mingles canned ghetto jargon with quotes from Kafka and Francis Bacon, begins to verbally assault Glas's defensive taciturnity...
...stage. In school in the Midlands and ever since, he has worked at his profession energetically but not flamboyantly. After six months in repertory in Coventry, he took a job at the Royal Court Theater in London, then landed in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, the brash, lewd play that brought new life and a new generation to the anemic English stage of the '50s. "It took everybody by the ears," Bates says, "and marked a whole new way of thinking in the British theater...
...urban and cosmopolitan section of New Orleans, he was not the stereotypical Southern Congressman. Though he joined other Southerners in signing a 1956 manifesto opposing school integration, he dramatically came out in favor of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and three years later voted for the open housing law. Brash and at times arrogant, Boggs had a great talent for booming oratory. He thoroughly enjoyed the clubby conviviality of the Congress, but had a high disregard for the tedium of slow-moving House hearings and meetings. He much preferred more sociable activities. His annual May party at his handsome house...