Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, the fact remains that when Zhirinovsky talks to ordinary Russians, they listen. His brazen but canny style was on fine display when TIME accompanied him on a visit recently to Shchelkovo, the rural industrial center 25 miles northeast of Moscow that he represents in parliament...
Jonathan Moreno, an investigator for the committee, said the out-and-out denial is the most brazen the committee has yet encountered...
...mounting fear of violence in the Big Easy is no idle perception. The murder count last year hit a record 389, a 36% jump over 1992. Other serious crime is causing alarm as it becomes more brazen and frequent: smash-and-grab assaults on motorists at stoplights, robberies of French Quarter tourists. Bob Tucker, a computer-services executive, shot an intruder who jumped him in the driveway of his fenced home as he left for work one morning. Says Tucker: "Crime is out of control and everywhere...
Both sides make valid points. It's just that neither seems to grasp the brazen new mood out there represented by, among other things, all the grass- roots female backing for Ms. Bobbitt. The retail clerks who send her letters of support, the homemakers who cackle wildly every time they sharpen the butcher knife are neither "tired of hearing about victims" nor eager to honor them. They're tired of being victims. And they're eager to see women fight back by whatever means necessary. Probably it all started when Louise -- or was it Thelma? -- dispatched that scumball would...
...more they remain the same? Not quite: in this case, the more things have changed, the more they have got even worse. Under President Clinton, the lobbying, influence peddling and revolving-door connections between officials and lobbyists that candidate Clinton denounced have become more intense, and at times more brazen, than ever...