Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is none of John Rockwell's "This writer" bullshit, none of Kit Rachlis' ludicrous over-intellectualization, none of Dave Marsh's brash favoritism (who likes Beaver Brown, but not the Clash!), etc. When Rolling Stone has grown more and more uncool, the Voice quietly retains its cool, thanks to Lester Bangs and Mr. Christgau. This book is hardly comprehensive, nore objective, but it doesn't and couldn't try to be. He loves enough types of music--Reggae, Soul, Punk, and Rock and Roll--and listens to enough music (14 hours a day, brag his zealous press releases...
Brinnin's study of Capote, from a brash youth, striving for recognition and feeding items to the gossip columns, to an older, established writer searching to maintain his integrity and voice while living as a perpetual guest and jet-set darling, is a model of character development. "I had to know what it was really like. Years and years I'd wondered: What if you woke up in the morning, so rich you were famous for it. Would you try a quiet little murder or two, just to see if you could get away with it? I've found...
...Poli took his reputation as a militant seriously. A hearty eater and drinker, the 6-ft. 2-in. Pittsburgh native usually speaks calmly and always clearly. "I am not a ranter or a raver or a stomper," he says. "I am frank and straightforward." One critic calls him "a brash bastard," while one follower considers him "a helluva father figure." Poli does not apologize for, in effect, pushing his friend Leyden aside. "We could see there might be cause to strike," he explains coolly. "I knew I would be ready for it, and John might...
...issue was Casey's judgment in selecting the brash and arrogant Hugel, 56, for such a sensitive job. It entailed deploying CIA agents around the world, recruiting spies behind the Iron Curtain and giving the go-ahead for all covert operations. Also under study was the CIA's apparent failure to uncover allegations of serious impropriety in Hugel's business practices when the agency ran its customary background check. One main objective of the screening process is to find out if a prospective CIA official could in any way be blackmailed-and "blackmail" was precisely what Hugel...
...play's biggest role, Reporter Hildy Johnson, David Garrison is brash, self-possessed, life-of-the-party, winning and entirely wrong. Hildy is nearing middle age. He sees one last chance to break free, give up the tabloid follies of youth and settle down with wife, pipe, slippers and mother-in-law. Garrison's Hildy instead sees endless tomorrows. The girl he loves enough to leave the Examiner for, moreover, ought to be so enticing as to make any man question his values. At Santa Fe she comes across as a drip...