Word: brashness
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...brother Bob were forced to leave behind in 2005 when they departed the Walt Disney Co. after 12 colorful years. In Harvey's final scene, the two snag back the name from the media giant, which has turned Miramax into a déclassé, financially diminished Mouse brand. Harvey, the brash movie mogul who helped spin the low-budget indie-film trade into a booming business, doesn't need more wealth. And he's not pushing for another Academy Award. He won the hardware in 1999 for producing Shakespeare in Love, and he has marketed pictures that have scored nearly...
...your graduation ceremony,†he said, raising his arms. “Students of the Kennedy School of Government, you are free to go!†At the time, Colbert was not speaking as himself, but as “Stephen Colbert,†the brash, right-wing pundit he portrays on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.†However, despite a few moments which blurred fact and fiction, Colbert spent most of the evening out of character, revealing behind-the-scenes secrets of his hit show and musing...
...time, Colbert was not speaking as himself, but as “Stephen Colbert,†the brash, right-wing pundit he portrays on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report...
...pair, who were not married to each other, worked every day, mostly in the living room of Comden's Manhattan apartment, composing stories and lyrics for the likes of Leonard Bernstein and Jule Styne and seamlessly adapting them to music that ranged from bouncy (Make Someone Happy) to brash (New York, New York) to melancholy (The Party's Over). "A lot of people don't believe this," she said of the duo's working process, "but at the end of the day, we usually don't remember who thought up what." After a slew of Tony Awards and induction into...
...surprise that Rumsfeld finally resigned - to be replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates. What is surprising is how long it took. Well before the Army Times and Marine Times called for his resignation - even before John McCain declared he had lost confidence in Rumsfeld - the brash Secretary of Defense had lost almost all his allies inside the White House. Just the mention of his name would cause aides to the President to grind their teeth and roll their eyes. He had become a liability to the President, and his advisers knew it and resented it. If the choice...