Word: brashly
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...been thinking about leadoff singles from Spice Girls albums. (Procrastination does terrible things to your mind.) "Wannabe" announced the brash arrival of a group hell-bent on asserting their (grating) presence. "Spice Up Your Life" was a giant "screw you, if you think we're cheesy we'll give you as cheesy as cheesy gets." So what does "Holler"-available as an import double-A side single with "Let Love Lead the Way"-say? With its stuttering beats and lyrics about sex ("I wanna make you holler"), it just comes across as a generic R&B song. What's more...
...from grace" paradigm than Hollywood golden boy Matt Damon? He's already shown a knack for playing psychologically mucked-up characters in Good Will Hunting and The Talented Mr. Ripley, so the emotionally scarred Junuh isn't too much of a stretch. The character walks a fine line between brash confidence and paralyzing fear-and by making this confusion seem genuine, Damon succeeds in winning the audience's sympathy. What impresses me most about Damon, though, is his linguistic versatility. After all, not many actors can flip between a Bostonian accent and a Southern drawl with such apparent ease...
Many felt that Harvard needed a strong, outspoken leader, someone qualified, flexible, innovative and maybe even brash--someone who represented the change universities were undergoing. The Crimson reported that the search committee's model for the new president was Kingman Brewster, 51, then president of Yale. Once a professor at Harvard Law School, Brewster was everything a president needed to be: charming, outspoken, diplomatic and committed to academics...
Speaking more with unadulterated optimism than brash assuredness, George captures the spirit of this year's Crimson team. Featuring 15 freshmen and six sophomores, Harvard has effectively tapped its core of young players in surging to a No. 8 ranking in the latest New England regional poll...
...what made Kostunica the perfect candidate now was what he was not. He was a humble, bookish scholar, not a brash firebrand pol. He was a vigorous nationalist, not an ethnic killer. He subscribed to multiparty democracy and market economics but never kowtowed to the West. He wanted to end confrontation with Europe and the U.S. but harshly condemned NATO's air war and slammed Washington's aggressive support for the Serbian opposition this past year as "the kiss of death." He vowed not to deliver Milosevic to the Hague, calling the war-crimes tribunal an illegitimate instrument...