Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gubernatorial race, brash Lieutenant Governor Mike Curb, 37, lost to Attorney General George Deukmejian, 53. Two weeks before the vote, when Curb was ahead in the polls, he sent out 500,000 letters accusing Deukmejian of disloyalty to President Reagan. The charge backfired: for one thing, Deukmejian had been a floor leader for Reagan when he was California's Governor; for another, it was discovered that Curb failed to register to vote until he was 29 and thus missed two chances to cast ballots for Reagan as Governor. The Democratic gubernatorial winner was Tom Bradley, 64, mayor...
...Hanky Panky had 30 or 40 more of them it might have been a congenial little picture. It certainly would have been better if Gilda Radner had not decided that for her next impersonation she would do a romantic ingénue. She is, in lantern-jaw looks and brash spirit, unsuited to playing such a role straight and apparently unwilling to parody it. Wilder seems so embarrassed for her that he tries to do the acting for both of them, with results that strain his normally funny interpretation of the coward who finds, if not grace, then shrewdness, under...
...announcement a year ago cheered Britain: Rupert Murdoch, the brash, bossy Australian who had bought the staid, venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...
Much of King's brash confidence that Massachusetts can thrive under the new programs of Reaganomics seems only political positioning, election-year fact juggling. "Our economy is so much stronger than most other states," he boasts often and in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee he recently trumpeted "the great American success story" that has materialized during his reign. But though unemployment has inched down in Massachusetts in the past few years, the Bay State is hardly in the invincible position that King would suggest. Manufacturing for one key example, has stagnated over the past year, and several key cities...
Specifically, he has learned not to make brash pledges, a stance he can afford because of his current front runner position. In 1974, he campaigned on the guarantee of no future increases in taxes, a promise he was forced to break in order to deal with a mounting budget deficit. The result was the so-called "Dukakis surtax," a 7.5 percent surtax on state income taxes...