Word: brazens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story is too traditionally Truffaut -- a confrontation of innocence (equated with intellect) and brazen, vulgar ignorance that becomes a gutter sophistication. The ending, with Camille's inexplicable ascendance and her final betrayal, are barely believable. Truffaut assists her with a foil in Helene; nondescript where Camille is vibrant, proper where she is vulgar, and whose studied disapproval of the experiment masks incipient love. At the end of the film she and Camille pass at the jailer's desk during visiting hours; Camille on her way out, Helene unable to get in. As the film ends, she types the manuscript...
...that his legal mother was in fact a virgin, Wordsworth substitutes that woman's ashes with cannabis, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum coated nipples in the spotlights. Aunt Augusta is Henry's wicked fairy--in the beginning a brazen hussy, in the end a worn out bronze he has come to love...
...America and elsewhere, there are those who have branded the moon landings as brazen propaganda ploys or technological stunts. They are prisoners of limited vision who cannot comprehend, or do not care, that Neil Armstrong's step in the lunar dust will be well remembered when most of today's burning issues have become mere footnotes to history...
...Corp., a New Jersey electric equipment company, which he once said he had built "on financial agility." He entered IOS in 1970 in the role of savior, arranging a desperately needed $10 million loan and later becoming chairman. Soon, though, the SEC charged, Vesco began acting as despoiler. His "brazen" scheme, according to the agency, unfolded in three steps...
...with a singing narration stating that we are about to glimpse Johann Sr., "founder of the house of Strauss." Lyricists Robert Craig Wright and George Forrest make great capital of this rhyme, employing it later when Johann Jr. is toiling over his operetta and the narrator boasts in his brazen tenor: "In 43 days/ Inside this house/ Johann Strauss/ Composed Die Fledermaus...