Word: brashness
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...crowd has gotten crankier in the face of the brash indifference to its fury. It seems that the mighty have been hit with some virulent strain of arrogance common to those told that they were Too Big to Fail. First the auto executives swooped into town in their Gulfstream IVs to ask for $25 billion; then Merrill Lynch superman John Thain spent $1,405 on a trash can and suggested he deserved a $40 million bonus for losing $15 billion in the fourth quarter. Even Tom Daschle, whose loyal Senate brethren were set to confirm him to the Cabinet, discovered...
...It’s You,” she uses it to her great advantage.A boldly irreverent lyricist, Allen seems to have taken Mary Poppins’ advice about “a spoonful of sugar” to heart. While she delivers messages that are brash, defiant and sometimes painfully candid, she delivers them in poppy tunes, soft beats and simple harmonies. Her voice, too, is gentle and—at least to the American ear—charmingly accented. But the main appeal of her music lies in what she has to say, and she knows it functions...
...Brash was the tone for several actors who died last year. Van Johnson, 92, was the boy-next-door type, wooing such luscious ingenues as Elizabeth Taylor, Esther Williams, June Allyson and Janet Leigh. But he laced his altar-boy grin with a terrier's raspy impatience; he was the Chris Matthews of 1940s MGM. A trash-talking, proto-rapping musical-comedy star of a later era, Rudy Ray Moore, 81, created the street-smut sasser Dolemite as part of his stand-up act, then used the character as the hero of a legendarily transgressive 1975 blaxploitation epic. Stick around...
...Know What It Is,” “What You Know.” Prospectus: T.I.’s efforts to establish his identity are problematized by his own desire to remain hidden behind a projected persona. He’s both brash, gun-loving T.I.P. and self-assured entertainer T.I., and while this has surely fractured his own psyche, at least we can have him however we like. Economics Let the Dollar Circulate: Young Jeezy and the Problem with Keynesian Economics Primary source: The Recession, a much needed stimulus package for Jeezy’s bank...
...global image of Iceland over the past few years has been shaped by a generation of brash young entrepreneurs, self-styled Vikings of business, who jetted around Europe snapping up companies and finding ever new ways to get rich. Their world collapsed this fall, along with Iceland's economy. So it's fitting that another - and very different - Icelander is stepping in to take their place on the world stage. His name is Erlendur Sveinsson, and he's a gloomy, introverted and thoroughly unhappy man who dislikes the way Iceland has been modernizing. His family life is a mess, with...