Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high seas. The result, says Conner, is "like a fuel dragster vs. a turbocharged Porsche. While the dragster might have more speed in a straight line, he doesn't want to go 24 hours at Le Mans." The series was also a classic duel of wily veteran vs. brash youth. Conner has some 10,000 hours on 12-meter boats. New Zealand Skipper Chris Dickson, 25, although a sailor since childhood, has been at their helms less than a year...
...Angeles Architect William Pereira. When the time came, in 1981, to expand LACMA, the proper response to them would have been the bulldozer. But that would have meant closing the museum. So its trustees engaged Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, a New York firm with a name for brash, virile signature buildings heavily layered with industrial metaphor, to design a new wing. The goals were to house LACMA's modern and contemporary collections and shows, separating them from its other collections; to provide 50,000 sq. ft. of new exhibition space, more storage room and new offices; and, if possible...
...begin Dec. 28. The leader, New Zealand, has amassed 198 points out of a possible 199; it will sail a best-ofseven series against fourth-place French Kiss (129 points), named after its sponsor, Kis, a French manufacturer of photographic equipment. Kiss has been a surprise, surviving with a brash young crew and steady sailing. Second-place Stars & Stripes (154 points), skippered by Dennis Conner, who lost the Cup in '83 and is determined to get it back, will battle USA (139 points), a radical boat from San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club skippered by a wily veteran...
...Cruise film Top Gun, about U.S. Navy pilots training to be "the best of the best," had all the ingredients for a hit: a brash beefcake hero and a gorgeous, throaty-voiced heroine (Kelly McGillis), a pop-music sound track and MTV-style visual pyrotechnics. But the truly impressive stars of the film are its sleek, roaring fighter jets. Featured in thrilling aerial sequences, they make modern-day dogfights seem like the ultimate video game...
WHEN ALLEN GINSBERG published "Howl" in 1956, the poem was dirty enough, and its author brash enough, to establish new standards of literary freedom...