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Word: brazening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Janis does provide one other valuable service. For everyone who thought her singing pushed too hard, who turned off Joplin because of the brazen way she went after an audience, this movie will make clear how deeply she needed that kind of wild acceptance. When Janis talked about feeling good, it always came out forced. When she sang, though, people responded, not so much to the exultation of her music as to the plea and the desperation that lay close underneath it all. Twice in the film-after performances at the Monterey Festival and a Cavett show -we watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pieces of Dreams | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...actually cheered this urban variant on that rube farce. So let the matter be stated as forcefully as possible: Death Wish is a meretricious film-in its curious lack of feeling even for innocent victims of crime, in its hysterical exaggerations of an undeniable problem, and especially in its brazen endorsement of violence as a solution to violence. ·Richard Schickel

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mug Shooting | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

...most brazen attempted use of the tax power by the White House was its persistent effort to destroy the reputation of Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien just before the 1972 election. Not only was O'Brien's phone bugged (in the Watergate breakin, the device failed to work), but John

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: More Evidence: Huge Case for Judgment | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...place of the rich, yes, who are so different from you and me; of those who can afford to believe that life is to be comfortable and that the point if not the promise of life is happiness. But the place is somehow too brazen in its confidence that happiness can be bought and that the past can be brought back, too lacking in age and refinement, in the proportion and discretion that Henry James might approve. Its whiteness is somehow too harsh in a way that makes the mind spring ineluctably to the raw beginnings of the money...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Red, White and Black Beauty | 5/3/1974 | See Source »

...became an issue with which Danehy sharpened his attack on the council coalition. One the same March evening when the council voted to appoint James Sullivan city manager, the council raised the manager's annual pay from $34,000 to $45,000. Danehy called the pay hike "the most brazen political act ever taken in this city," and charged that the coalition raised the manager's salary prior to John Corcoran's April 1 retirement in order to increase Corcoran's pension...

Author: By Richard H. P. sia, | Title: City Hall: The Infighting Escalates | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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