Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...until last year that he skippered a twelve, Turner's old Independence. Convinced that he could be competitive himself if only his boat were a little faster, Long raised $500,000 and stripped Independence for parts. The result: the deep blue Clipper and a helmsman brash enough to be Turner's son. "Ted peaked out in 1977," says Long. "He's been totally outclassed by Conner...
...being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes 18 pro players. Pelé's biggest problem occurs off the set, where he is constantly mobbed by rabid soccer fans. In the place Hungarians call Hollywood on the Danube, the "Black Pearl...
...should recall that Turner has prevailed over long odds before. He rebuilt his family's failing billboard business, turned money-losing WTBS into a national cable powerhouse with profits of $5 million last year and won the America's Cup against the world's finest yachtsmen. Brash, abrasive, sometimes uncouth, Ted Turner is a guy that many people would love to see fail. In his current enterprise, though, he has a lot of fans. Says NBC'S Davis: "The more people we have in the news business, the better off we are in this country...
...remember your first love? You were a brash sixth-grader, she a blond, fifth-grade beauty. One day you sat down on the bus and there she was, across the aisle...