Word: fearless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Broadway, Jeffrey Lunden's score provides evocatively dissonant metaphors for what is going on inside the afflicted woman's head. But when Arthur Perlman's book and lyrics guide her into banal emotional bonds with a therapist and fellow patients, the sentimentality seems out of character for the tough, fearless old woman so vividly acted by Linda Stephens...
Diller, 51, is a tough, frequently rude, sometimes imperious executive. "He's the most confrontational man I know," says HBO chairman Michael Fuchs. "He is fearless. He will ask anybody anything." A micromanager, he is obsessed with everything from program budgets to office design. Fox staff members in Manhattan recall secretaries scurrying around before one Diller visit, trying to replace the red poinsettias with the white ones Diller prefers. His outbursts of temper are legendary. During an argument with Stephen Chao, the former head of production for Fox's owned stations (later fired by Murdoch for hiring a nude male...
...their activism, the Clintons are apt to play a surprisingly modest role as national tastemakers. They are far more likely to reflect baby-boomer trends than to shape them. Sure, there are fearless forecasts from marketing gurus. "Elvis memorabilia is going to go up to a whole new level," predicts Brad Edmondson, the editor in chief of American Demographics. "Remember Ronald Reagan and jelly beans. Jimmy Carter and peanuts." He may be right; too bad Graceland (privately owned) is not traded on the stock exchange...
...favored "recession" is too moderate a word to describe this country's situation, and our fearless leader would not even use the "r-word" until last year. While even during the Great Depression, the United States experienced economic growth, the last two years have shown the first period of overall economic decline on record...
...aviatrix, played by Candy Buckley, manages the part quite well, given the rather stereotyped "fearless Nadia" role that Shaw created for her. With her contempt for the romantic, her functional masculine clothing and her lithe, muscular body, she is not so much a character as a symbol of Shaw's perfect woman...