Word: brashness
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...after Bronx M.C.s like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five pioneered hip-hop, New York City rapper Tim Dog's 1991 single F___ Compton took aim at the growing L.A. scene and, with it, Suge Knight's Death Row Records. Knight, for his part, focused his ire on a brash young New York producer named, back then, Puff Daddy...
Feroz Abbasi disliked the brash Australian who competed with him for the attention and favor of their al-Qaeda boss. He described his rival as "Al-Qaedah's 24 ct. [carat] Golden Boy" and claimed he'd said he wanted to rob and kill Jews back in Australia and crash an airplane into a building. Abbasi's resentful and deeply unflattering account of his Australian comrade, David Hicks, is contained in a 148-page memoir he wrote for anti-terrorism investigators while incarcerated in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
...Anna Nicole did her mourning in the Bahamas. She had slipped away from Billy Wayne and small town Texas in 1987 and found her way back to Houston, a city with a brash and brassy side. There, in October 1991, an aging oil millionaire, grief stricken with the loss of both a wife and a mistress, was taken by his chaffeur for a little cheering up to Gigi's Cabaret. It was the kind of place where young women dance exotically for their suppers. And that is how Anna Nicole found her second husband, Howard Marshall...
...explosion that hurled Perot off the GM board of directors and into the headlines. At a session that Perot agreed to skip, the other members of the GM board voted unanimously to buy back his 11.3 million shares of company stock for $700 million. In effect, they told the brash Texan that he could take his money and his loud mouth and go away...
Human beings have always been brash enough to ask such questions but lacked the necessary gifts to answer them. At last, we are acquiring that ability. What we can't yet know is whether we will wisely use the remarkable things we're slowly learning...