Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she's not plotting with Gingrich and his congressional allies, Huffington socializes with the city's young conservatives, who admire her social grace and hang on every word of her brash conservatism. At a dinner honoring another conservative deity, Margaret Thatcher, she was escorted by David Brock, the writer for the American Spectator who reported the Arkansas state troopers' allegations about President Clinton's infidelities. She played host to a book party for author and former Bush aide Jim Pinkerton, a young conservative Washington author. Another new friend is attorney Laura Ingraham, former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas...
...Monday night, however, few students were in attendance. Poundstone's brash, acerbic humor found a more adult audience than that usually attending Social Analysis 10 and Justice lectures...
With a few exceptions--Joan Rivers and Whoopi Goldberg both had short-lived late-night shows--women have been left to amuse from the guest chair. But the fall TV season has brought two new women to late night: Stephanie Miller, the brash former host of a top-rated Los Angeles radio show, and the husky-voiced former supermodel (and co-star of this season's Central Park West) Lauren Hutton. Both aspire to distinguish themselves with shows that are, in at least some respects, stylized and unconventional...
Krohn,, as Daughter, is the younger of the two women, and her portrayal of this character makes this distinction clear. Unlike the brash, uninhibited character of Weitzner, Krohn is bashful, shy, and confused as the Visitor appears to come back into her life...
...peacekeeping mission "at an end" and said the Muslim government would demand the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers unless contributing nations agreed to confront Serb rebels in combat. That's roughly what France has proposed to do, to the chagrin of Britain and other partners who fear the plan is brash and unrealistic. Even so, one European Union official told TIME's Jay Branegan at a meeting of European foreign ministers today that French and British positions "are becoming closer." And yet: "The British want to see a very detailed plan for how it would work, and say the only...