Word: braved
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...Closet Association, a New York City-based group that counsels firms on smarter representation of gays in advertising, logged 436 gay-themed ads in global gay and mainstream media last year - around a fifth of which appeared in Europe - versus around 350 in 2003. "What might seem a very brave step to make isn't that brave, really," says Jon Howard, strategy director of London ad agency Quiet Storm. He suggests gays are on average "more affluent, more interested in style and brands, and travel more" than their straight counterparts. Moreover, some research indicates that merely delivering a gay-tailored...
With Israeli helicopter gunships and jets regularly pouncing from the blue sky to attack vehicles, only the desperate or brave travel south Lebanon's narrow twisting roads...
...these brave young men and women, a close call with an Israeli missile was not enough to make them stay at home. They spent the night in hospital but checked out in the morning...
There's nothing mysterious about Harris, playing Foxx's cop lover. She's brave and tough minded, and her fate is what finally energizes the movie's concluding chapter. Mann is good at action, especially when it comes to surprises--the sudden blossoming of blood behind a gunned-down bad guy, the mighty explosion that we aren't expecting...
...comic Italians and wasted dames) and facile aural editorializing (braying trombones, in case you didn't catch the blatant ironies in the dialogue) that the exaggeration almost becomes a style, as it surely does in Spillane's writing. This was 1955, when director Robert Aldrich's consistent coarseness was brave and bracing in Hollywood, rather than routine...