Word: brashly
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...aide "People either like me the way I am, or they don't," Midge Costanza liked to say. In the White House, as the months wore on, it seemed that more and more members of Jimmy Carter's all-male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office...
Part of the problem has been a case of bad personal chemistry between the aging, cautious leaders in the Kremlin and the brash, evangelistic and sometimes naive Georgians in the White House. Comfortable with the classically quiet negotiating style of Kissinger, the Russians were offended by Carter's early attempt to conduct a more open diplomacy. They were even angrier when Carter proposed that SALT II effect deep cuts in strategic arsenals; to Moscow, this seemed an attempt to rewrite an agreement that had been negotiated with Ford...
...jockey. In 1965 he abandoned a $150,000-a-year radio post on KNX in Los Angeles to risk acting in a new CBS-TV comedy series about American prisoners of war in a German concentration camp. The show was an unexpected smash, and Crane, as the P.O.W.s' brash, resourceful ringleader, Colonel Hogan, became one of the most familiar faces on television...
...littleness. The box serves him as it served Joseph Cornell: as a diminutive theater in which anything can happen, whose proscenium marks its contents off from the real world. But Westermann's imagination is quite unlike Cornell's nostalgic, refined mode of dreaming. It is colloquial, even brash, charged with sexual tension and loaded with implications of frustration and death...
...first time you hear it, so you stop and think about what you just heard and place the stylus back a bit so you can hear it again. Street Hassle is more than just a collection of songs. The first side is a fluent cavalcade of melodic bass and brash guitar and, of course, the twisted, driving vocals of Lou Reed...