Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canny and aggressive as the property tycoons in Monopoly. As "trustbusting attorneys," they move around a board populated by such corporate giants as Egson Oil, Nazareth Steel, Major Electric, and ITD I, II and III. Their aim: slapping paper indictments on offending companies. Now and then, the brash young barristers win trustbusting bonuses and collect supervisory payments from other attorneys who happen to land on corporations already indicted. So that no unlucky player need sit in the corner while others wheel and deal, Anti-Monopoly ends when the first player runs out of ready cash...
...second with an omniscient voice intoning a "begat" section of the Bible, while shadows file on and off the stage leaving it a clutter of history. Eve is there knitting, lines of childbirth drawn onto her face, placid as her husband digs in the dirt beside her. A brash and warlike Cain returns, brandishing a spear, and in the mother son exchange that follows Dean throws so much of herself into the part, quivers with so much wise fire, that the most devastating line in the play by contrast is spoken simply and softly, unacted: "All you men, except only...
When White House staffers came up with yet another botched tape last week, they faced the attack of a brash and bright lawyer named Richard Ben-Veniste, who, at the age of 30, is the main courtroom performer for the staff of the Special Prosecutor for Watergate. After hearing that the tape was indecipherable, Ben-Veniste urged Judge John J. Sirica to take custody of all the presidential tapes in question to ensure their "integrity" - a request that the judge promptly granted...
...extraordinary drama pitted an experienced team of White House attorneys against two aggressive 30-year-olds from the special prosecutor's staff. Most of the tough questions were posed by Richard Ben-Veniste, a brash, curly haired lawyer with an imposing recall of past Watergate-related testimony. Last week, when the President's feisty personal secretary Rose Mary Woods (see box following page) was called, the questions were asked by Jill Vollner, an attractive miniskirted attorney whose queries were delivered with a gentle touch...
Chicago political figures tend to make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...