Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...Olympic record is 7 ft. 4 1/4 in. and Stones has been talking about winning the gold medal by at least four inches over the competition. Embree has been a bit more realistic and not quite as brash about...
...fractured leadership had come a long way toward resolving its differences. Indeed, visually, the Congress was a showpiece of elusive party unity. Lined up on the rostrum before a giant picture of Chairman Mao were representatives of just about every one of Peking's factions-from the brash young radical Wang Hung-wen to relative conservatives like Vice Premier Li Hsiennien. But the actual results of the Congress, especially its choice of men for high positions, constituted a striking victory for the party's moderates. The major appointments...