Word: boastfulness
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...pinchpenny budget of $6.5 million -- a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes of the New Testament, Scorsese wants to restore the immediacy of that time...
...play on the diamond. Fans know that any player who becomes a star will soon be promoted to a higher league. "We can't really highlight a player," says Bill Terlecky, general manager of the Maine Phillies, "because we might lose him." One consolation: many minor-league buffs can boast of having seen Dwight Gooden and other superstars play when they were fresh out of high school...
...Planning says, "Then we'll get Atlanta and take out all the Southeastern branch offices in one swoop." Even if that were the Russians' plan, how would Atlanta people know about it? A Chamber of Commerce mole in the Kremlin? Even if they knew about it, why would they boast about it? Who wants to be up toward the front in a queue awaiting annihilation...
...must- see new musicals this year, but the London theater season does boast provocative plays by Peter Shaffer and Tom Stoppard...
...this year's finish, a first-round NCAA loss to Michigan State, did not equal the previous two Final Four appearances of the last two Crimson teams, this duo can look back at its accomplishments and realize that not many graduating seniors on other teams in the nation could boast of such a resume...