Word: outspokenness
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...Guggenheim exhibit has just wound up a four-month tour of Australia. Using aggressive financial and marketing strategies normally applied to commercial enterprises, Krens, 45, may be reinventing the way museums do business -- and in the process creating the art world's first multinational. He is the most outspoken and controversial of a growing number of museum directors who are fusing hard- edged business acumen with classic connoisseurship...
...Bush has consigned geopolitics to second place so that he can concentrate on a detailed discussion of auto parts, semiconductors and rice. By bringing along an entourage of 21 corporate executives, a number of whom are outspoken protectionists and Japan bashers, the President has turned the trip into a trade mission and himself into his own Secretary of Commerce. To such a visitor, the Japanese will find it all the easier to say no. So even in terms of his own obsessively repeated objective, the J word, Bush is likely to fail...
...then served as deputy rector for science at Lenin State University in Minsk. He was long a party member, but did not turn to politics until after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, when he joined a campaign to expose official attempts to cover up the damage. His reputation as an outspoken critic earned him a seat in 1990 in the Belorussian supreme soviet, where he was elected chairman last September...
Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard University law professor and outspoken defense attorney, thinks the tearful outbursts of Smith's accuser are affected by television. "You're playing to a bigger stage, to the world, and your gestures have to be bigger," he says. Unlike theater, however, TV is a medium geared to close-ups, where small gestures work too. On the stand, Senator Kennedy made his own play to the emotions in a subdued fashion. And even in a sensational trial, emotional high points may be less important to the jury than the persistent repetition of a bit of evidence that...
Paglia, who will be speaking at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church next Tuesday, has made waves in the last year as an outspoken critic of feminist and multicultural scholarship...