Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Brulin moved from Antioch to the Caribbean island of Curasao, a group of his devoted students joined him, and in 1971 they formed Otrabanda (named for the black residential quarter of Curasao-known as "the other side"). After returning to the U.S., the company employed Brulin's brash, blunt, highly physical and often noisy techniques mainly on tours to colleges and universities. "We played to very elite audiences," says Otrabandist David Dawkins, "which was exactly what we didn't want to get into. We wanted to play to everyone...
...English coffee salesman (Malcolm McDowell), a description as precise and inadequate as saying that Gulliver's Travels concerns the misadventures of a ship's surgeon. In O Lucky Man! Lindsay Anderson calls on all the resources of the cinema, challenges them and extends them. The movie is brash, eclectic, innovative, deeply personal and elusive-all at once. It is a transcendent movie; perhaps even a great...
...waiting game is not his customary strategy, but it makes good political sense. There is no question that Connally would like to be President, but he chooses not to be too forward about it. He does not want to offend Republican regulars by seeming the brash interloper. He rejected the advice of former White House Special Counsel Charles Colson, who suggested that Connally go on national television and urge other Democrats to follow him into the G.O.P. "It would be presumptuous," said the former pillar of Texas Democracy, "to assume that the Republican Party has been breathlessly awaiting my entry...
That statement comes at a curious juncture in Western history -the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Polish churchman and scholar Nicholas Copernicus. It was his dryly mathematical, yet brash book On the Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies that dislodged the earth-and man along with it-from the center of the universe, moving the sun into that place. The Copernican theory shook the most basic theological and philosophical canons of the day. Even more important, it provided the intellectual spark for the tremendous acceleration of knowledge that Western culture has since come to call science...
...manic sets. Murray's apartment has the disarray of a closet overflowing with athletic equipment. The occupant of this holocaust is played by Bill Schley, who coaxed his Murray from a slow start into a performance of unassuming ease: this is fitting in a character that can tend to brash self-righteousness. Walter Murphy, a fifteen-year-old from an acting program at Phillips Brooks House, plays Nick (who, at Murray's urging, calls himself everything from Dr. Morris Fishbein to Raphael Sabatini) as he should be--bright, engaging, and a little bit bizarre...