Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death. To climbers they are known as the eight-thousanders. And many of them, including Mount Everest, were conquered by mountaineers who fudged a little: they used bottled air. No one had ever conquered all 14 -- much less without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered 13 other eight-thousanders in the past 16 years, all without oxygen, Messner had completed mountaineering's grand slam...
Gehry, 57, has lived in Southern California almost continuously since he was a teenager, and his buildings are Californian -- brash, unpretentious, ad hoc, construction-worker constructivist. For him, imperfect construction details and urban sprawl are now American givens: the challenge is to make buildings that are compelling in spite of off-the-rack materials and confused, banal surroundings...
Whatever the ultimate outcome, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt cannot escape the striking symbolism of their company's bankruptcy filing. Here was the clan that embodied all that was bold, brash and rich about the American oil patch. Yet today, like many a lone Texas wildcatter, the Hunt brothers are hurting -- and not even the hugest gusher can provide a cure...
...reigned from 1975 to 1985. They had played each other a record 72 times in 14 months: a five-month, 48-game marathon that ended without a winner in February 1985, and a second match that finished last November in a smashing 13-11 victory for the brash, high-living Kasparov. Last week they began Round 3 in London, with Games 73, 74 and 75 (all draws). But not before an opening round of press-conference publicity, in which Kasparov, asked about his playboy image, shrugged, "I must accept it," and said of his challenger, "Unfortunately I cannot choose...
...strategy was to stick with morning publication rather than go head to head in the afternoon with the Times. Then the News immediately expanded to 48 pages. "We decided we had to match the news hole of the Times," says McClatchy, 59. As publisher, McClatchy plucked brash Jerry Grilly from Florida, where he was running a chain of weeklies. "It was like someone offered me a job on the moon," recalls Grilly, now 39. The moon might have been cozier. When Grilly arrived in Anchorage, the Times controlled 85% of the advertising dollars. "It was tough getting people to return...