Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knows when to play it and when to step aside and parody it. Sometimes they do both at once, which is good for keeping everyone off balance and juicing interest even higher. Whatever the Stones play at, they remain the definitive rock-'n'-roll group, gutter-hard, brash and tough and tight. They are real monsters in the contemporary sense: outrageous, fine, unstoppable, uncatchable. Call them the best rock-'n'-roll band in the world...
...began appearing six weeks after the June 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Headquarters, the two fought vehemently over points in their stories. Yet their dissimilarities effectively checked and balanced each other's performance. Woodward, a registered Republican, was cautious, an awkward writer and shy interviewer. Bernstein was brash, ready to take a chance, a polished writer and cunning interviewer...
...Southern city. I'd like to protect it from self-incrimination, to give the town back the ridiculously transparent pseudonym--Exeter--which it first received from a cousin of mine, a famous writer from that state who never used one word if he knew ten, and claimed in his brash youth to have registered in hotels in the area under names like "Benny Johnson," "Eddie Spenser" or "Al Tennyson." (He also described in one of his books "the most notorious whore-house in the state, located on a corner in my home-town where the public library now stands...
...persuasive testimony of the technicians inspired a spirited contest between two aggressive lawyers: Richard Ben-Veniste, 30, the brash assistant prosecutor who has handled much of the tapes controversy in the Sirica hearings, and James St. Clair, 53, the Boston trial lawyer who became the President's new chief counsel for all of his Watergate defense on Jan. 1. Far less defensive than his soft-spoken predecessors, Buzhardt and Leonard Garment, the poised, silver-haired St. Clair sharply challenged any effort by Ben-Veniste to get the experts to draw conclusions going beyond their carefully stated report...
These ten papers stand out, in TIME'S view, for several reasons. They make a conscientious effort to cover national and international news as well as to monitor their own communities. They can be brash and entertaining as well as informative. They are willing to risk money, time and manpower on extended investigations. Through "Op-Ed" pages and dissenting columns they offer a range of disparate opinion. TIME made its selections on the basis of editorial excellence rather than commercial success, but economically these papers range from the sound to the very prosperous...