Word: daringness
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The year was 1956. On Nov. 4, 200,000 Soviet troops and hundreds of tanks stormed Hungary to crush a daring and bloody uprising, the most direct challenge to Moscow's postwar hegemony over Eastern Europe before or since. Suicide squads lobbed Molotov cocktails, paving stones and sticks at the...
The attack was swift and startling, the getaway apparently clean. Shortly after midnight one morning last April, a mysterious electronic intruder interrupted a movie on HBO with a transmission of his own. GOOD EVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT, read the message on the screen. $12.95/MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/MOVIE CHANNEL...
Miller has concocted a fable that reassures several constituencies of readers. Feminists can applaud the pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she...
Ruthless People combines all the old gags in the book, wrapped up in a slightly different package--from car chases to clown masks to sex with a Dustbuster. It's so over-conscious of trying to be the screwiest comedy ever, of trying to be crude and daring, that it...
Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963...