Word: brashly
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...hard to imagine that Winston Churchill was ever young. This second volume of Randolph Churchill's five-part biography of his father presents the apprentice statesman, exuberantly flexing the first sinews of power. The book spans only 14 years, opening in 1901 with a brash Churchill of 26 taking his seat on the Tory back bench, and closes on the figure of the First Lord of the Admiralty...
Randall Darwall's set is physically and spiritually perfect. Straight birch trees, thin pillars. How Botticellian! How very Fra Angelican! All in front of an Italian blue sky, with actors in Charlotte H. Prince's costumes of slightly brash, Pre-Raphaelite color. An amygdalaceous show, Gilbert might say. A real peach...
...beggar's dance is frolicsome when it should be ferocious; the possession of the bride by the dybbuk is dispatched before the full terror of the assault can be developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...
...year 1967, the styles and statements of America's brash, brilliant and often infuriating contemporary artists have not only become available to the man in the street, but are virtually unavoidable. And with proliferation comes confusion. Whole new schools of painting seem to charge through the art scene with the speed of an express train, causing Pop Artist Andy Warhol to predict the day "when everyone will be famous for 15 minutes...
...life in one family's history. Mansions begins where A Touch of the Poet leaves off, in the Massachusetts of the 1830s. The hero of the earlier play, a swaggering, staggering Irish tavern keeper named Con Melody, has just died, having spent most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion, as big as a castle, on a grand estate of stately woodland...