Word: brashly
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...that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their ear if he wanted to call headquarters. And while we were supposed to like him, his temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool was supposed to make things more subtle. But it never really worked. When anti-heroin crusader Doyle busts a bellboy for a joint in his back pocket the filmmakers are testing the audience's sympathies too much. And all was subservient to the immortal Chase...
...Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark in the struggle for integration. ∙ Died. Leroy "Buddy" McHugh, 84, legendary police reporter; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last survivor of the brash Chicago press corps depicted in The Front Page, McHugh used every ploy to scoop competitors: posing as a coroner to get privileged information, hiding behind police sergeants' desks and answering their phones. Though he reported some 700 murders, McHugh's greatest coup came in 1952 when he filed...
...brash ads open a new battle in a marketing war that so far has been fought mostly over menus. Jack's officials claim that Jack's Bonusburger begat McDonald's Big Mac-but concede that McDonald's Fillet O'Fish begat the Moby Jack. In early morning skirmishes, Breakfast Jacks fight Egg McMuffins. In its ads, Jack long tried to counter Ronald McDonald with Rodney Allen Rippy, a five-year-old who demonstrated on TV his inability to stuff a Jumbo Jack burger into his mouth...
...could level similar charges at the director--he is vulgar, sloppy, with a wild imagination that colors furiously outside the lines. Which is why an actor like Jack Nicholson (who plays the doctor)--an actor of understatement and double meaning--looks totally out of place in Tommy. And a brash swaggerer like Oliver Reed (Tommy's stepfather) is quite at home...
...chose the mild Billy Buddish sailor in Liberty." He played a tall, sexy version of the short, unsexy Billy Rose with zest in Funny Lady "because I wanted to do a musical." Even if Ingmar Bergman summoned, Jimmy would go only for one, "possibly two" pictures. He is not brash; he simply wishes to avoid ruts, typecasting and difficult colleagues. "Otherwise," he says, "it's three months of pain...