Word: brazen
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...LIFE'S CHOICE IRONIES that (in the realm of art, anyway) what is gentle and equivocal often outlasts what is tough and brazen. When in 1970 Company first opened--music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth--it was celebrated for its punch. Here was an innovative, hard-hitting musical that trafficked in booze and pot, bile and cynicism, promiscuity and adultery. Yet these are the aspects of Company that seem most dated a quarter-century later in a revival that has just come to Broadway, starring Boyd Gaines as Robert, the bachelor of many nicknames (Bobby, Robby...
...hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable-TV sermons about "Renewing American Civilization" with brazen plugs for corporations that contributed to his funding operation, GOPAC. He wants to destroy the national endowments while promoting tax breaks for developers on Mars. There are times when "American civilization" should be defended against its renewers, and this is one of them...
Maybe suburbia is a genteel sham, or maybe not. Adherence to 12-step programs could be, as someone says here, "just another form of addiction." The Wrenwood patients could be searchers or fools, the staff fakers or dupes-or healers. The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach is that he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing, as seductive as the sherbety decor of Carol's home, as mysterious as the illness that seizes her. It will also seize any viewer who dares to surrender to its spell. Feel free to laugh or scream...
...allergic to the 20th century." "Safe" tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at a "chemical-free zone in New Mexico." Moore's beautifully acted performance gives the director the vessel to present his questions about suburbia, the environment and 12-step programs. "The brazen majesty of Haynes' approach," says Corliss, is that "he spills no secrets, makes no obvious judgments. Safe is its own unique thing...
...past, the Serbs have been adept at backing off just enough from provocations to allow the situation to quiet down; and it is possible they might conclude that their increasingly brazen violations are exhausting the patience even of some of their friends. Notably, Russian President Boris Yeltsin expressed pro forma opposition to the air strikes but added that his government had warned the Serbs that they must stop violating agreements with the U.N. "They did not do this, so they got it," said Yeltsin...