Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yorkers blasted the trade of Clemens for David Wells because Wells was the prototypical New Yorker--brash, crass and with a large ass. That's not to mention that he could pitch a pretty good nine...
...Yorkers blasted the trade of Clemens for David Wells because Wells was the prototypical New Yorker--brash, crass and with a large...
...performance that makesJawbreaker more of a horror film thananything else. Courtney is unstable and brash, andthough Liz's death was an accident, another murderat her hands would not be inconceivable. Thehorror movie element is intensified by theperiodic dizzying flashbacks with stop-actionfilming and bizarre lighting that highlights Liz'sbruised body and the discovery of her body by herparents. And of course, the mere setting of highschool alone also makes this film fit the horrorgenre. If it isn't a ghastly retainer (worn byper-"Vylette" Fern) or snobby cheerleaders (one ofwhom is played by Tatyana Ali '02 ), then it'sthe feeling...
...stylized--but real. Subtitles and film quality make it feel once in a while like documentary, but a good one. The comic voice finds vent on occasion, too, fortunately not through concerted effort, soccer uniform jokes and all (though the line about Brazil's worth it), but a brash sassiness and the primacy of the Scottish idiom enlivens everything...
...friends assembled here, Podhoretz knew Ginsberg the longest, for 50 years, from the time they were students together at Columbia University just after the war. Though Ginsberg's aura toward the end of his life (he died in 1997) suggested Buddhist serenity, Podhoretz remembers him as "arrogant and brash and full of an in-your-face bravado," even a kind of fury. Ginsberg seemed to have a fixation on Podhoretz--possibly because he suspected that Podhoretz had his number as a personality-poet camouflaging mediocrity with an outrageous epater-le-bourgeois program (insanity is sanity; drugs are sacramental; homosexuality...