Word: boasting
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Vulgar Crowds. Despite its manifest disadvantages, Pantelleria has developed something of a tourist trade. Because it has been so ill-favored by nature, it has a tranquillity few other islands in the Mediterranean can boast. In the past several years, wealthy Italians eager to avoid the vulgar crowds at Capri or Amalfi have discovered it. So have moviemakers. Except for the untoward events of World War II, about the only thing of note that has happened in Pantelleria in the past 2,000 years or so was the shooting of a pornographic movie, Thank You, Mrs. P., two summers...
...sure, the largely blue-collar, heavily Irish Catholic South Boston community does not put much emphasis on scholastics. "Some students boast at graduation they never opened a book," explains Headmaster William Reid. "These youngsters are interested in sports or friends they make here, enjoying community life and spending nights on the corner. High school for many of them is looked on as the most pleasant experience of their life...
Later that day, the Crimson grapplers turned in a fine performance, despite losing to Clarion, 40-3. The Golden Eagles boast three national champions and are currently the number one college division team in the nation...
Reason is, East never meets West anymore, and the twain ne'er looked farther apart. Except for one man's grid empire in the Alleghenies, all the East can boast is four of nine letters in "Southeast," indications this fall of renewed life in the Atlantic Coast Conference and a few scattered All-Americans and All-Easties playing in post-season bowls--including Harvard's Pat McInally (appearing at the Shrine East-West game in San Francisco December 28, the Hula Bowl in Honolulu January 4 and the Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., January 11...and in doing so, breaking...
What Sakowitz does offer the doting donor is lessons in earthier arts that are certain to make the recipient the cocktail-party one-upsman (or woman) of 1975. How many of the gang, for example, will be able to boast of a day's skiing with coaching by Jean-Claude Killy at Val d'Isere, France (for a mere $4,325, not including travel and accommodations)? For the price of an airline ticket to California, plus board and meals, plus $115,000, the gift recipient can take ten private swimming lessons with Mark Spitz. Want...