Word: brazening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a simple sexual defiance but a symphony of rebellions laced with a deep sense of responsibility: now she is undraped in Penthouse, now she is doing a benefit for AIDS research, now she is doing a Pepsi commercial, now she is the dutiful wife, now she is the brazen divorcee. Serious feminist scholars defend her intelligent womanliness. Bluenoses sniff at her every bump and grind. The Vatican has denounced her. Academics spin doctoral dissertations based on her canon. The Queer Nation beatifies her. Wannabes still, well, wanna...
...Weld is brazen, then Weicker and Tennessee's Ned McWherter, who is also trying to institute a state income tax, may be courting political folly. The only time a state income tax was enacted in Connecticut, in 1971, it provoked such an outcry that it was repealed within six weeks. Tennesseans dislike the tax so much that the state courts once declared it unconstitutional. Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue...
...statement, the I.R.A. said the planning for the operation "predates both John Major's coming to power and the beginning of British involvement in the gulf war." It was the most brazen assault on top British officials since 1984, when the I.R.A. set off a bomb at a Conservative Party conference in Brighton that killed five people and narrowly missed then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...Corbusier's progression from direct representation becomes apparent in Head and S-Curve, a lively drawing rendered in brazen colors. A purer example of this trend in his pictorial art is the figure drawing Two Bathers, in which he extracts the shapes suggested by the two figures with a black wash. The figures are then reduced to background lines...
...Soviet empire and America's re-evaluation of its military spending offered a safe opening for his claims of hegemony. He has the army, the arsenal and the audacity to pursue his grand ambition to rule the region -- or rock the world. In effect, Saddam has leveled a brazen challenge: Stop me if you can. Last weekend one of his spokesmen snarled that if anyone moved against Iraqi forces, Baghdad would "chop off his arm from the shoulder...