Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power. Yeltsin has been thinking of a considerably weakened role for his former rival in a future bare-bones Union: Gorbachev glad-handing visiting heads of state, Gorbachev keeping the country's electric grid in working order or Gorbachev making certain the trains run on time. As one brazen Russian slogan put it, "Misha, don't forget under whose flag you were rescued...
...drab Senate hearing room fittingly dominated by a vast map of the world, witnesses gave the first public testimony last week in the biggest and most brazen financial scandal of all time. Speaking in blunt terms that brought gasps from the packed chamber, they charged what TIME and other media reported in July: the criminal enterprise known as the Bank of Credit & Commerce International thrived as a $20 billion worldwide cash conduit for thugs ranging from terrorists to narcotraficantes, while Washington and other capitals turned a blind eye. "This is a story of big-time, big-money con artists," said...
...wearing her old clothes to try to shift the spotlight onto him," ; gripes another cameraman, "and it won't work." Him, of course, is the problematic Prince Charles, whose dilatory connubial ways have the brazen British tabloids -- and increasingly the world press -- in a feeding frenzy...
...rhetorical quagmire of the racial-quota debate, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that virtually all Americans abhor brazen racial favoritism. Blacks, whites, Democrats and Republicans alike passionately believe in the meritocracy, but radically disagree on whether we are becoming...
...Hudson and middle-aged Jane Wyman daring a love that flouts convention; and Imitation of Life, in which wannabe white woman Susan Kohner throws herself on her black mother's coffin and sobs out her remorse to the throb of a Mahalia Jackson spiritual. Jungle Fever is no less brazen -- or assured. A righteous man shoots his deranged son, and the man's wife unleashes a scream that blends with the gospel wail of . . . Mahalia Jackson. Here Jungle Fever ascends fearlessly into the delirium of high Hollywood melodrama: it's berserk Sirk...