Word: defiant
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Eszterhas has been able to get away with being a defiant rebel because he delivers high-voltage scripts. He's become best known for his sharp, pulp- fiction sense and his ability to build dramatic confrontations out of blunt dialogue. He can also hammer out reams of pages within hours. On Flashdance, Simpson recalls, "he gave us a draft in two weeks, then did 11 more. He's a workhorse...
...office, bare except for the desk, eight chairs and a cot, he can hear the NATO planes. They trouble him and often, as they roar overhead, he will stop in mid-conversation and begin a tirade against the forces that are arrayed against his men. But he is defiant about the possibility of foreign intervention. "I draw the maps around here," he says, "not Mr. Owen...
...because the Russians, who hold veto power, insist on taking the Bosnian Serbs' May 15 referendum seriously. Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said he hoped "the population will be wiser than its legislative branch." Moscow he said, was not excluding "any option, including tough measures" if the Serbs remain defiant, but Washington wonders if Russia would approve air strikes against fellow Slavs...
...favored by old lions when the cubs get unruly. "The time has come to air my feelings," Charles proclaims. "There's just so much confusion going down." When the wary listener hears, "You got to stand out from the crowd," preparations begin immediately to endure one of those tauntingly defiant My Way-style apologias. But after this initial flirtation, Charles goes his own way, and My World becomes instead a guardedly optimistic paean to human potential. It's damn near Jacksonesque (Michael or the Rev. Jesse, your pick) and sends the album off on a smooth trip where...
During the Reagan-Bush years, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to seize most opportunities to chip away at abortion rights. Not so lately. Last Monday the Justices refused to hear Louisiana's plea to revive its defiant 1991 law, struck down by lower courts, which would have banned most abortions and sent noncomplying doctors to prison. The action, the second such within four months, suggests that despite bitter disagreement, for now the high bench is sticking by last term's compromise words: states may restrict abortion, but not ban it or impose "undue" barriers...