Word: chutzpah
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...sheer chutzpah, nothing can top the final exhibit, Zhang Hongtu's Studs. A big, red door, slyly reminiscent of the crimson gates that once kept the Forbidden City forbidden and now protect the Party leadership compound. But in Zhang's work, the door's elaborate iron studs have become phallic pipes frozen in, as the artist delicately puts it, "states of inadequate erection." So much for vigorous leadership. But if the First Guangzhou Triennial is any indication, China's experimental art scene is more virile than ever...
...campus on a bike, constantly on FM’s call, ready to drop her orgo books in favor of hotter FM assignments. Slaw, as she is called when FM refers to her by her e-mail address, stands out from other photogs for her dazzling style and utter chutzpah. She wasn’t afraid to tell FM’s 15 seniors to stand up on their chairs so she would be able to snap impeccable shots of their uproarious presentations. And speaking of tables, Sarah likes to dance on them. At Crimson parties. She?...
...Donen would shape their film?s dances, then their dances and direction. They co-directed "On the Town," "Singin? in the Rain" and "It?s Always Fair Weather." Their work together was, in Silverman?s words, "a magical combination of Gene Kelly?s charisma and Stanley Donen?s chutzpah...
...literally in the hands of students today—editorial writers and protest leaders and student government committee chairs and holders of every position that has ever seemed slightly, well, inconsequential in the bigger picture. Gomes asserts that Summers is blatantly pandering to student interests. If students have enough chutzpah to capitalize on the situation, Gomes says, they can effect far-reaching change just by asking for it. Ultimately, Gomes thinks Harvard 25 years from now will be shaped by the students of the next 24 years...
...dates will judge us whether or not we choose to take part in tomorrow’s charade, and defiance is a dangerous gamble. For those of you with the chutzpah to stay the course and risk life and love, you are truly admirable. You will suffer heavy casualties, but the overthrow of an undemocratic institution is certainly a noble cause...