Word: brashly
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...most eligible bachelor in America (last month he became engaged to Melinda French, 28, a midlevel executive in charge of Microsoft's desktop-publishing business). Though Gates is famous for his lack of pretension, his habit of flying in coach class and his easy accessibility, he can also be brash, imperious and brutally blunt. He has been known to publicly dress down his managers, and more than once has reduced fresh-out-of-college employees to near tears by berating their thoughtful presentations at staff meetings with such withering lines as, "That's the dumbest idea I've ever heard...
Toomer is heading to New York next year to try her luck in the music business, and she concedes it's a big risk for a woman from the suburbs. Then again, for this brash, impetuous and very talented woman, there's nothing new about that...
...movie industry, "It takes balls to make a good film." The octogenarian Hollywood legend was speaking in the basement of Sever Hall as part of the Avignon/Cambridge '93 film workshop. Though the panel included three other directors and two actors, Fuller managed to dominate the discussion in his characteristically brash yet lovable style...
Indeed they had. The year was 1953, and that afternoon in the university's Cavendish Laboratory, the two brash overachievers had at last solved a puzzle that had for years stymied scientists seeking to understand how traits are passed from one generation to the next. By finally discerning the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the giant molecule of heredity, they had cleared the way for a great leap forward in human understanding of the processes of life...
...Brash, angry, funny, Denis Leary rants his way to stardom...