Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BOTTOM LINE: The latest successful home-grown opera is a brash tale of turn-of-the-century passions...
Until now, Frank Norris' 1899 novel was best known as the inspiration for Erich von Stroheim's 1924 silent epic Greed. Bolcom has given the material a brash, distinctive voice. His score evokes turn-of-the-century America in a slick, seamless potpourri of retro modernism, long, loose-limbed melodies and irresistible rhythmic invention...
...guess their motives were good, but Harvard didn't need to be so brash," said Matthew L. Bruce...
...lightning bolt of uncertainty had crashed into a campaign that was shaping up as a likely Democratic blowout. Suddenly, the battle between a flagging incumbent and his brash young challenger was transformed into a weird tag-team contest in which the newcomer might join forces with one man against the other -- or beat up on both of them simultaneously. And the complicated debate calculus that had been at the center of weeks of negotiations was skewed by the prospect of an unprecedented three-way debate...
SONIC YOUTH'S LATEST ALBUM, Dirty, probably won't be very popular at Harvard. It's brash. It's loud. It's unconventional. And it sounds nothing like Steve Miller, James Taylor...