Word: brazened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gold has won some important converts to his brazen idea. The Swedish government, with support from the U.S. Gas Research Institute, is expected to invest $14 million to bore 15,000 ft. into the granite bedrock of Lake Siljan in central Sweden, in the hope of finding vast stores of natural gas. Reason: the lake was formed when a meteor slammed to the earth 360 million years ago, possibly fracturing the bedrock and allowing gas to percolate upward. Says William Staats, director of basic research at the Gas Research Institute in Chicago: "We believe that there is enough at stake...
IMAGE. My image to people, I think, is that I'm this brazen, aggressive young woman who has an O.K. voice with some pretty exciting songs, who wears what she wants to wear and says what she wants to say and who has potential as an actress. Sex symbol? That is such a weird question. I guess I would be perceived as that because I have a typically voluptuous body and because the way I dress accents my femininity, and because a lot of what I am about is just expressing sexual desire and not really caring what people think...
...some jokes are missing, others misfire, and the visual style is deadpan and pedestrian. But Tomlin gets laughs and poignancy from a character who for most of the film is visible only when Roger looks in a mirror. And Martin vaults to the top of the class with his brazen, precise performance. This one goes in the time capsule...
...cramped confines of the Manhattan Theater Club stage, his choices nevertheless represent a legitimate response to Henley's writing. On the whole, it is more vividly and crazily charged than it was in her Pulitzer-prizewinning Crimes of the Heart. In fact, in its cut-loose characterizations and brazen theatricality, Miss Firecracker is infinitely preferable to that rather pallid comedy...
...world, like to argue that the bully is running because in the final analysis he has no moral defense. The United States' actions in Nicaragua are immoral, as well as wrongheaded and antithetical to our interests in the region, and the World Court affair shows us President Reagan's brazen disregard for democratic ideals...