Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ugly, but it may be the smartest digital camera yet. The Sony Mavica ($599; 800-342-5721) lets users transfer digital picture files on cheap floppy disks, making it vastly simpler to shuttle images between the camera and a computer. When it hits stores this summer, Mavica will boast a suite of other features: a zoom lens, a small preview and playback screen and four picture-tinting options. In a nicely anachronistic touch, the camera can sepia-tone any image at the push of a button, using 20th century technology to create an image that looks...
...they are illustrative of a larger point: Harvard has a long way to go until it can boast an atmosphere that is not just open to women, but more substantially, welcoming as well. As we gather today to send a new class into the world, we urge all those who care about Harvard';s future to take an active role in making Harvard a better place: first by recognizing that women are not fully integrated into this University, and then by pushing for change...
Only the movie business is better at creating summertime hype. But the amusement-park industry has a boast that remains astoundingly extradimensional (after all, cinematic thrills extend no farther than the screen): 20 new roller coasters are opening this year. Hold on tight. This is theater in the round, zooming off into real flights of fancy...
...began in San Diego's funky, gay-friendly Hillcrest neighborhood, with a 27-year-old who called himself Andrew DeSilva, but whose family knew him as Andrew Phillip Cunanan. Bespectacled and slightly paunchy, "DeSilva" liked to dance with his shirt off, treat large groups to dinner with cash and boast about his family's sugar plantation in the Philippines. He lived high, but no one seemed to know how he managed it. "Everyone knew Andrew," says one scene-maker. "He was a very outgoing, fun guy. There was a kind of patheticness about him, because good-looking gold diggers were...
...Church of Scientology, which boasts 700 centers in 65 countries, according to Time magazine of May 6, 1991, purports "to 'clear' people of their unhappiness" through self-help techniques, career guidance and a supportive community. The Church's "Celebrity Centers," clubhouses geared toward the rich and famous, boast high-profile members such as Kirstie Alley, Sonny Bono, Tom Cruise and John Travolta...