Word: impetuousity
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Partly because of his clashes with the party apparat, Yeltsin became known as a maverick while running the Moscow party committee: he was outspoken, impetuous and disdainful of authority. He took on the entire machine in 1989 to run as Moscow's delegate-at-large for the Congress of People...
The impetuous optimism, however, was quintessential Yeltsin, and it has helped make him the first popularly elected head of government in Russia's 1,000-year history. The eventual outcome of last week's presidential election was never in doubt, but there was some question whether Yeltsin would win the...
He looks like your average sitcom teenager -- gangling, shy, his boyish face framed by a mop of dark curly hair. Until he sits down at the piano. Then, all of a sudden, Evgeni Kissin, who just turned 19, grows up. Big, powerful hands crash down on the keyboard with the...
The mad, impetuous '80s are over. The shop-till-you-drop gilded decade of excess, Rolex, baby millionaires and their legions of wannabes has given way to a new age of moderation and caution. Dynasty, meet Roseanne. In its June survey, the Conference Board, which every month measures consumer confidence...
Perhaps Beethoven would have cringed at such impetuous behavior, but for Joel--who has been climbing pianos for almost two decades--it was his own way of harkening back to tradition, something he did plenty of during his first of three shows at the Providence Civic Center Wednesday night.