Word: brazens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pipes said that the Soviet Union is moving toward a harder line vis-a-vis the U.S. "The carrot and the stick has been knocked out of the hands of the U.S., leading to a more brazen Russian expansion throughout the world," he added...
...critic is equally hysterical about another large-scale plagiarism: the Divine Comedy of Hilario Lambkin Formento. This nonbook is not a brazen, word-for-word theft, Domecq insists, but rather the best piece of descriptive criticism ever penned on Dante's masterpiece, since it is an exact replica of the original...
...Anarchy. Earlier movies like The Seduction of Mimi and All Screwed Up found their way to theaters and attracted a tenacious following. It all may have to do with the brashness and ambition of Wertmuller's work, the interdependence of its energy and coarseness. Her movies stand in brazen contrast to the homogenized complacency of most Hollywood films. Seven Beauties has pulled down more than $100,000 at the New York box office in less than two weeks. If it does as well in subsequent releases-it is scheduled to open in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles...
Randy Howze, who plays Old Woman Pus--the prostitute or floorwasher--handles her smutty dialogue as easily as the fat cop spews his. She suspends a brazen account of her husband's set-to with constipation by rummaging bemusedly through the garbage or tranquilly scattering popcorn at the birds and Old Man Boyle. She coordinates her fickle behavior with the theme of insanity. Howze uses her spindly body delicately. She shapes her mouth into a crooked leer. And Old Woman Pus's complaint that her head is full of cobwebs emphasizes her resemblance to a spider with its graceful agility...
...recent years dozens of bootleggers have been collecting up to $500 million annually that should have gone to major studios in legitimate film rentals. The pirates have also become increasingly brazen. While the $14 million disaster thriller Towering Inferno was still in production last year, a San Diego movie theater was showing a 90-minute pirated version put together from prints of individual scenes (the full movie takes 165 minutes to play). On a recent visit to Tel Aviv, two associates of Sam Arkoff, chairman of American International Pictures, to their amazement spotted his film, The Masque...