Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brash style has endeared him to the Newt Gingrich wing of the party. During his campaign for attorney general, Lungren chased his Democratic opponent into an elevator, shouting his demand that the two hold a debate on the spot. And at the 1992 convention, he urged Republicans not to be "shamed into silence" over the party's controversial 1988 Willie Horton ad. Said he: "This is one Republican who won't be cowed." The son of Richard Nixon's physician, he served 10 years in the House, forging ties with Gingrich, Senate majority leader Trent Lott and other conservatives...
Eddie Murphy is dead. Long live Eddie Murphy. In his latest movie, the erst-while superstar delivers a captivating, many-sided performance that ironically succeeds most when Murphy exaggerates and demonizes the very character that launched him to stardom--the brash, vulgar fast-talker able to one-up anyone. But returning constantly to the lower end of the roller coaster -- bathroom humor and insipid romance -- the movie acquires a wearying, frustrating rhythm of unbearable idiocy alternating with high-quality hilarity...
...Pascagoula shipyard worker, Lott, 54, has served as his party's whip, or top vote counter, for 10 of the past 15 years, first in the House and then in the Senate. His victory last week marked the triumph in the usually sober Senate of the breed of young, brash and very conservative Republican that took over the House when Newt Gingrich swept the G.O.P. to power in 1994. Lott is a supply-side tax cutter and a fervent deregulator, though his enthusiasm for deficit reduction withers when it comes to Pentagon pork, which he adroitly delivers to his home...
...majority whip in 1994. "They have never liked each other," says TIME's James Carney. "Lott is more conservative and at heart is really a House member who happens to be in the Senate. He belong to the more Gingrich-style Republicans. Cochran is not nearly as conservative or brash as Lott." Dole's unexpected announcement has drastically altered the character of a contest that Lott would have been favored to win. "Everyone expected this contest to be played out in November when the more moderate Republicans, like Nancy Kassebaum and Mark Hatfield, who are not seeking reelection would have...
Mitsubishi's outraged and outsized response to the charges has sensationalized the case. Led by a brash general counsel, Gary Schultz, about 2,000 workers--given the day off for the purpose--demonstrated with supporters outside the Chicago offices of the EEOC last week. "Two, four, six, eight," they chanted, "we're here to set the story straight." "Do we have sex on the line?" one man shouted. "Do we get naked on the line?" "No!" the crowd roared. Some waved placards; others unfurled a long banner that read EEOC PLEASE STOP SLANDERING...