Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turner, 40, acts as boldly as he talks, which is saying a great deal. As the brash owner of the Atlanta Braves, Turner was once formally reprimanded by National League President Charles Feeney; he has irritated the game's purists with several of his promotional ploys. In 1977 he took on the gentlemen of the yachting world and earned the chance to defend the America's Cup. Turner and Courageous won. His latest target: the nation's major television networks. His "superstation," WTCG in Atlanta, now reaches 4 million households in 46 states by broadcasting via satellite. Now the three...
...boat comin' up the river"), then turn it into an apocalypse. Of all rock's major figures, Young seems to have absorbed the most from the punk movement. The music on this record, punched up in part by Young's band, Crazy Horse, is full of brash challenge, like the best punk. Even his acoustic songs-sometimes witty, often wildly romantic-have the kind of recklessness and daring that punk stands for but only fitfully delivers. There are other specters and influences hovering around this record, from Mark Twain to Sam Peckinpah to Johnny Rotten...
...Mile Island from an enterprising Boston radio reporter who called long distance to check out the rumor of imminent nuclear disaster. It was two days before Doutrich was properly briefed by utility and state officials. Joe Viens of Miramar, Fla., a former state trooper and undercover narc, has a brash, street-wise manner and does Teddy Kennedy impersonations in his native "Baas-ton" accent. But he concedes that he has trouble getting enough precise planning information to make a strong case for the housing program he wants...
...newsreels, sometimes the sentimental gaze of Capra or Hawks. A scene in the bar of a flashy Melbourne hotel harks back to Casablanca, for example. Len Maguire, with his new girl Amy on his arm, meets his brother Frank (Amy's old flame) after years of separation. Frank's brash charm, his pert, silly American secretary, conversation laced with double entendres and meaningful glances, and even a black piano player crooning "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"--it's all so stylishly orchestrated by Noyce that you're sure you've seen it before...
...three women in Father's Day have been left by their husbands. Their responses define their temperaments and personalities. Louise (Susan Tyrrell) is brash, her language is raw, and she is a comic spitfire. She is still in a towering rage over the divorce and harbors delusions of winning her husband back from his present wife...