Word: boastfulness
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...comedies need to begin as Scrooge and end up as Santa. They must pretend to a cleansing meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...became commonplace, National Geographic offered generations of boys their first opportunity to ogle bare-breasted women -- though the breasts were almost always African or Asian, rarely Caucasian. Even today the magazine is squirreled away each month like precious treasure by many of the society's 10.5 million members, who boast floor- sagging collections and trade back copies until they are tattered...
...Crimson lost only one graduating senior, Pam DiRubio, and can boast greater depth and experience this season. The chemistry between the lines has also improved with skaters who have a history of playing together...
...long ago, E.F. Hutton could boast that it was the brokerage house to which "people listen." But in the past two years Hutton has found its reputation dwindling rapidly. Amid concerns over the firm's uncertain financial health, Hutton's stock slumped from a high of 44 7/8 last January to as low as 11 on the day after the October market crash. Last week the eroding confidence in the company and an expected downgrading of its credit rating forced the parent company of the tenth largest U.S. retail brokerage to take a - humbling step: inviting a takeover or dismemberment...
...sure, the country can boast some undeniable successes. The productivity increases of Italian workers, for instance, now rival those of the Japanese, with a rise of 3.6% this year alone. But many observers see signs of disenchantment, even weariness, among the public at large. "We have been running fast, but now there is this feeling of having to catch one's breath," says Sociologist Franco Ferrarotti. "All this achievement means we are abandoning a way of life that was cherished...