Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andrew Rueb, I leave a long wig of blonde hair. With his impending professional tennis career, tennis is now in need of another flashy, brash tennis pro--now that Agassi has gone the way of the razor. Wouldn't that be perfect? The first Harvard player to garner a big-time endorsement, as he appears playing tennis on the streets of New York City against Sampras, all the while sporting his "Yuck Fale" t-shirt...
...days later, Jean Colonna, the brash boy of grunge Parisian avant-grade, presented his fall collection of women's and men's clothing at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The event was a fundraiser for the Institute, the ideal location to the introduce Colonna's hybrid clothing. Both the women's and men's wear combined tight-fitting polyesters, black and silver leathers and a transparent, paper-like material. The models came swaggering down the runways in provocative, fluid movements, some dancing exotically to the grinding heavy metal. The whole event was very "in your face" with the women wearing...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the present. As he sings on the title track, "Whoever says the blues was dead/ Needs to come where I'm from where the streets are red." It's a gutsy album that works best when Thomas stops rapping and lets his music do the talking...
...Brash, cocky, arrogant, confident, they're all Dennis Connor. And before you brandish me, he'd probably agree. But you know what? He's a winner, and a fine skipper. He has one of the finest skippers on board already, but he has on qualms about grabbing the wheel and taking hold of his own ship, Stars and Stripes...
...Ecstasy" and Louisianan Chris Thomas' "21st Century Blues From Da Hood."TIME critic Christopher John Farleysays Harvey's music lacks "subtlety or grace," while Whitley's album is "painfully, almost uncomfortably honest." But it's not all bad. Farley says Thomas' work features a "crunching beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos...