Word: chutzpah
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...given that we're talking about Pericles here, that's really saying something. Pericles has always been one of Shakespeare's "problem plays," a point that the producers, with characteristic chutzpah, choose to illustrate by decorating the front of the program with germane quotations from critics spanning the last four hundred years. In a nutshell, they hated it: Ben Jonson called it "a mouldy tale" from the get-go, when it had barely had time to go stale. We're not even sure who wrote the play's first half. Current critical consensus suggests the culprit was a guy named...
...This woman's place is in the House--the House of Representatives," she won a seat in Congress in 1970 and bowled over Washington with her in-your-face manner and her raspy voice for reform. Abzug's signature hats were as wide and as colorful as her crotchety chutzpah...
...quarter of it for new spending plans. The White House has already prepared its spin on that one -- if the settlement goes up in smoke, Congress looks like the villain for snatching money out of teachers' paychecks. With a scam like that, Clinton has clearly lost none of his chutzpah...
...Talk about brazen: "The government got what it wanted, knowing full well what the consequences would be" ? thus spake Richard J. Urowsky, attorney for software giant Microsoft, as the browser battle picked up where it left off in December. Clearly, the firm's lawyers have lost none of their chutzpah in the intervening month ? at one point Urowsky claimed that Microsoft, that poor lost soul, was caught between contrary unbundling orders from the DOJ and the court. Even the judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, had to raise his eyebrows at that. "Microsoft came across as very abrasive," says Netly News correspondent...
Speaking realistically, though, the leap from familiar suburban mailcarrier to action hero is a lot to ask of the moviegoing public. And Costner is not the actor to ask it. His Postman is supposed to be a traveling actor (the first of many ironies) who uses his charm and chutzpah to snowball the entire American West into believing that a new government has been created (in Minneapolis, of all places) and that postal routes are being reestablished all over the country. Costner, however, is so devoid of charisma and conviction that you wonder why anyone would believe...