Word: brashness
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...years ago on the grounds of Railroad Magnate Leland Stanford's trotting-horse farm, the university is in the midst of a five-year centennial celebration that marks its rise from a modest regional school to the very top ranks of American higher education. The ascension of this brash Western upstart has come as both a shock and a challenge to such Ivy League powerhouses as 352-year-old Harvard and 242-year-old Princeton, where the notion of academic endeavor is firmly associated with rigorous winters and a stern Puritan work ethic. Reflecting the early contempt heaped on Palo...
...beat Harvard by being brash. The Engineers were not impressed with the Crimson's 16-3 record. Or its first-place standing in the ECAC...
...evening's smoothest duets, brash young intern Greg Arius, played by the show's best voice, Adam Wolman, wins over the billionaire's man-hating daughter, Miss Anne Thrope (Todd Fletcher). If Miss Anne cries crocodile tears while her sisters and stepmothers celebrate Denuar's death, she will gain his confidence--and eventually the lion's share of his estate. Secretly, Nurse Dwyer plans to bring about the horseshoe mogul's death with arsenic from Saint...
...Hampshire, leading up to primary night, the AARP mailed out 250,000 pieces of literature detailing the candidates' positions on Social Security, long-term health care and other incendiary issues. One booklet was called You Can Select the President -- a brash enough claim, until you consider that in 1984 a total of 101,000 Democrats voted in the primary and that the AARP has 145,000 members in New Hampshire alone. A $250,000 television ad campaign aims to get out the gray vote. "The old folks," says Political Consultant Thomas Kiley, "are showing more political muscle in this election...
Brook meticulously undercuts or complicates every stereotype with a welcome particularity. The crucial performance is by Film Star Brian Dennehy (Silverado, F/X) as a benevolent yet diffident Lopakhin, less a brash parvenu than a man poignantly conscious of his humble origins and clumsily trying to fit in. He is in his own way just as dreamy as Lyubov (Natasha Parry), the estate's spendthrift owner, whom he constantly upbraids for her impracticality. She ignores the impending auction of her home because any available means to "save" it would change and therefore destroy it. When Lopakhin cannot recruit...