Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this type of writing--bold, inventive, concise, brash--that gives us a renewed optimism about the shallow, greedy generation that we college students comprise, and that makes us all just a teensy bit more hopeful about the future of life on this planet...
...three terms as mayor of New York City, a politician must come to personify the town. Fiorello La Guardia and Robert Wagner did so and became the only three-termers in the 20th century. Now the brash and blabby Edward Koch is about to join them. Last week he won the nomination for a third four- year term with the heaviest majority in any Democratic mayoral primary this century. Koch, 60, vaporized his opponents, City Council President Carol Bellamy and Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., by taking 64% of the city's Democratic vote. His electric personality and his record...
...comrades on his solo debut, Sting chose top-flight young jazz players around the world to spur him to new heights. Seasoned by stints with such jazz luminaries as Miles Davis, Art Blakely and Weather Report, these trained-reflex young masters are fresh and brash enough to try playing with a pop star. But while the move to wed pop-rock/reggae with jazz may be conceptually daring, none of Sting's tunes foster the lyricism, relentless drive, or direct passion so potent in the best of both worlds...
...precisely a coincidence that the U.S. emerged as a world power just as its movies began girding the globe. Pushing parables of fulfillment in brash editorial rhythms, these new "moving pictures" were missionaries of American energy, traveling salesmen for life in the New World. And the sales pitch worked. How many millions, dazzled by this vision, determined right then to pack their bags and book passage for the U.S.? How many millions more stayed put, but discovered and appropriated the American style? See us and be like us. And just about everybody did. The American century began with the American...
...brash, confident Wotan of Das Rheingold and Die Walkure, the splendid American bass James Morris served notice that he will be a Teutonic god of vocal power and majesty for years to come. Proud, haughty and resolutely amoral, Morris dominated the drama as he must to give depth to the tragedy that is, ultimately, Wotan's doing. Equally impressive was the Hungarian-born soprano Eva Marton, a legitimate contender for the mantle of Birgit Nilsson with impassioned performances of Brunnhilde in Siegfried and Gotterdammerung. Awakened by Siegfried on the Valkyrie rock, Marton sang Brunnhilde's Heil dir, Sonne greeting...