Word: brazen
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...Buying of the President is not entertaining reading; indeed, it's rarely even well-written, as one might expect from a book authored by a committee, the "Center for Public Integrity." Instead, it offers a straightforward list of dirty deals, some of them so brazen that it makes U.S. politics seem little better than Italy's or Mexico...
...might expect, incredible; but opera was never famous for its realism. Suffice it to say that mothers are reunited with their long-lost children, people are locked in closets and jump out of windows, and there is plenty of opportunity for cross-dressing. Only the music justifies the brazen silliness of the story, and in this case, the trade is well worth making...
...Brazen self-reinvention is one of the great themes of American literature. Of course, when James Gatz turned himself into the fabulous Jay Gatsby, he was following the more traditional pattern of the outsider remaking himself as a metropolitan sophisticate. But in these days of rampant reverse snobbery, when "outsiderness" is prized and "insiderness" is shunned, there is no reason the same techniques cannot work the other way around. The fabulous fictional character "Lamar Alexander," for example--Republican presidential candidate, outsider, man of the people, scourge of Washington and everything in it--has been created out of Lamar Alexander...
...same time, right-wing extremists had grown increasingly brazen: posters of Rabin in a kaffiyeh, in a Nazi uniform, with blood on his hands, began appearing at rallies protesting the expansion of Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank, which had been dictated by the Oslo accords. Ehud Sprinzak, Israel's leading expert on right-wing Jewish violence, says, "A sense of enormous theological and personal desperation within the settlers, greatly intensified by Arab terrorism, finally produced an image of a monster in Rabin." Netanyahu himself did not help matters when he compared Rabin's Labor Party tactics to those...
They may not feel it in their gut, but they see it in the polls, and Buchanan's rivals have grown increasingly brazen about grabbing his message and making it their own. It was Buchanan, with his infamous declaration of a "cultural war" during the Republican Convention in 1992, who paved the way for Dole's attack on Hollywood this year. Long before Gramm decided that ending affirmative action would be his first presidential act, Buchanan stood virtually alone against what he called "the whole rotten infrastructure of reverse discrimination...