Word: brashly
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...takes three to six months, says one quant who has made the transition, to change a shy, bookish type into a ruthless money-making machine. What's required, says this alumnus of the system, is "to lose your sense of decency. You have to be rude, brash, you have to be selfish. Also you have to start ignoring 90% of what you are told." He describes, perhaps admiringly, a vulnerable Ph.D. from Princeton University. This fellow wore $50 suits and thick glasses. He was painfully polite. Transformed, he became the quant from Hell. "He's got this personality suddenly...
...arrived on his and Stella's doorstep, Blanche begins to lose the facade of reality she carried as the last reminder of her former life, She has lost the family's country plantation, Belle Reve (translated as "beautiful dream"). And Blanche, confronted by Stanley Kowalski's brash manner and disrespect, loses the last hold on her own "beautiful dream" of maintaining her life as a lady...
...movies' most promising -- and delivering -- young actress. She wore her wild streak in public: sex, drugs, locking horns with directors and co-stars. She turned down meaty roles in several popular films (including Broadcast News) and walked off another (A League of Their Own). Her star waned with brash parts in The Sheltering Sky and Everybody Wins. She made amber waves in Nebraska while trysting with Governor Bob Kerrey, before and after her two- year marriage to actor Timothy Hutton...
...Joseph Mazzello). Hopkins delights as the naive and slightly ingenuous children's author. But Winger seems to do more of the work. And as Joy Gresham she has her work cut out for her. Her character is almost as stereotypical as Lewis' initial analysis makes her sound. She's brash, loud-mouthed, has feminist and other leftist leanings and simply will never be anything but a Yankee. Lewis and his muddled, ex-military brother (an endearing Edward Hardwicke) think that she's darling; most of his colleagues don't. But Winger's performance is humane and intelligent. She manages...
What is it in this man, in his urgent voice and eager eyes, in the message and the messenger, that overwhelms even those who are predisposed to distrust him? Long ago, Billy Graham gave up the shiny suits and technicolor ties of the brash young evangelist; the silver mane is thinner now, the step may falter a bit, he no longer prowls the stage like a lynx. In his preaching as well, the temperatures of hellfire have been reduced, the volume turned down. Graham knows he needs to save his strength: he is fighting Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous...