Word: brashly
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...newsreels, sometimes the sentimental gaze of Capra or Hawks. A scene in the bar of a flashy Melbourne hotel harks back to Casablanca, for example. Len Maguire, with his new girl Amy on his arm, meets his brother Frank (Amy's old flame) after years of separation. Frank's brash charm, his pert, silly American secretary, conversation laced with double entendres and meaningful glances, and even a black piano player crooning "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"--it's all so stylishly orchestrated by Noyce that you're sure you've seen it before...
...George Steinbrenner decided that Martin was creating too much dissension among his big-name, high-salary players and replaced him with low-key Bob Lemon, who produced another championship. But last week, with the Yankees 7½ games back of the Baltimore Orioles, Steinbrenner soured on Lemon. Back came brash Billy with all his old ego and temperament intact. Yankee fans, who like Lemon but always loved Billy the more, greeted the prodigal with cheers and applause seldom equaled since Ruth in his prime, which isn't bad for a so-so infielder with a lifetime batting average...
...three women in Father's Day have been left by their husbands. Their responses define their temperaments and personalities. Louise (Susan Tyrrell) is brash, her language is raw, and she is a comic spitfire. She is still in a towering rage over the divorce and harbors delusions of winning her husband back from his present wife...
...Thing demonstrates, have grown pinched and crabby with age. Jake Richardson, 59, and his overweight wife Brenda have a problem. "I realized," Jake explains to his doctor, "something that used to be a big part of my life wasn't there any more." That thing is sex. A brash American who leads an encounter group grudgingly attended by Jake puts the matter succinctly: "What's with Jake is that he can't get it up any more, and what's with Brenda is she thinks it's her fault for having gotten middle-aged...
...molecular biology's leap into prominence has been amply documented. In 1953, at Britain's venerable Cambridge University, two brash young scientists named James Watson and Francis Crick made a discovery comparable to the fissioning of the atom or Darwin's publication of Origin of Species. In a matter of months, after cribbing clues from associates and competitors, Watson, then 25, and Crick, 36, cracked what they grandiosely called "the secret of life": they unraveled the long, spiraling architecture of the DNA molecule, a feat that suggested how heredity truly worked...