Word: boastfulness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book's tone is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's novels never fasten down on a specific moment in time and progress from there. Some of his more memorable characters are the couple on airplane in Cat's Cradle, who boast that they are Hoosiers. Natural, comfortable feelings of closeness are never present in these novels, whose characters find satisfaction only in artificial, relatively cold institutions...
Harvard libraries could opt for another possibility that would dramatically increase security: joining the electronic world and installing magnetic detection devices. We could then boast to be on par with the technological giants of the community, like the Boston Public Library, the Kennedy School Library, CVS and Newbury Comics...
Today 46 of the 50 states -- all but Alaska, Wyoming and North and South Dakota -- boast commercial operations that produce wine from grapes. Some are ma-and-pa vintners with an annual capacity of 1,000 cases or less. Others are industrial giants, like Washington's prizewinning Chateau Ste. Michelle, which turns out 500,000 cases a year of 14 different varietals. Most of these regional vintages, comparable to Europe's little country wines, have only local repute. But the White House has proudly served Cabernets from Texas, Pinot Noirs from Oregon and Chardonnays from Virginia and New York...
This month The Nutcracker will swirl into cities all around the country. Even the plainest staging will boast Tchaikovsky's rapturous score, the party scene's gentle lesson in golden-rule manners and, for little girls, the chance to dress up in winter finery. The New York City Ballet will have George Balanchine's exquisitely aristocratic Russian version (where dance aficionados often get their first chance to see new corps members perform solos). Across the river in Brooklyn, a new offshoot of the Bolshoi Ballet will show off its own simpler production. The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle will feature...
...Bennett is 5 ft. 11 in., 260 lbs.) was arriving at drug night spots in a Rolls-Royce driven by a young Hispanic. This was a mistake Bennett repeated: he made himself too visible. He even drove up to a South Central car wash in his Mercedes-Benz to boast to bystanders, "I got more keys ((kilos of cocaine)) in my trunk than you all got clothes on your back...