Word: boast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three in Bed. The game's heart is clearly located in the urban pub, although the suburbs of most major cities boast leagues too. Typical is the Jelly Belly Dart Association of Greenport, N.Y., which pits about 100 players in team matches every Monday night...
Greer paints a bleaker picture of women's consciousness than we have become accustomed to. Several times she asserts that women prefer male doctors, which-at least in this community-is blatantly false. And her view of female friendships is dimmer than reality. "Those women who boast of their love for their own sex," she asserts, "usually have curious relations with it, intimate to the most extraordinary degree but disloyal, unreliable and tension-ridden, however close and longstanding they may be." Perhaps in her situation it's true, but for most of us here, the pattern has changed...
...campaign he attacked his leading opponent, A.N.R. (for Arthur Napoleon Raymond) Robinson, 44, as a "halfwit" and said the others "could change places with the jackasses in the canefields." He told voters: "I have the power. I say come, and they cometh, I say go, and they goeth." The boast inevitably inspired an opposition sign: COMETH, GOETH, VOTETH...
...fables are done in mime, song and dance, plus direct asides to the audience. The performers are all toe, tongue, and letter-perfect. The company can boast of one of the standout contemporary clowns, Paul Sand. While he cannot reproduce the menagerie of animal sounds in this show that he does in Story Theatre, he is vastly amusing as a pixilated Mercury and equally funny as Phaeton, the cocky offspring of Phoebus (Apollo) who finds that he cannot actually control the horses that draw the chariot...
Rhetorical Flourish. This will undoubtedly come as a shock to the millions of young people who boast of their vitality and their commitment to causes and intense relationships. Yet Kosinski sees them as living well within a more or less familiar totalitarian spectrum. They are, he thinks, "victims of a collective image which, like ubiquitous television, engulfs us." A rhetorical flourish, perhaps. But it comes from a man who has transcended far more sinister totalitarianisms by leaving nothing to Chance...