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...that kind of talk on top of a heavy riff and it could be another slick M.C. Hammer rap, the kind of bouncy, braggadocian tune that repeatedly hooked the top single spot for U Can't Touch This. Hammer, 27, is living a dream: superstardom in a flash; private jet between gigs; movie offers; and a record label, Bust It Management Productions, to call his own. And all this by being the first performer to forge an alliance between two warring camps: the poppers and the rappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch Him | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...Francisco's annual Braggadocian gesture toward the Rose Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

East v. West. In San Francisco's annual braggadocian gesture toward the Rose Bowl, East, with eight Midwesterners including five All-Americas on its starting lineup, smothered West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bowls | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...Braggadocians had taken Mr. Sherod from jail and brought him home. Now the scaffold was finished. Now they tied Mr. Sherod's hands and suspended him thereby from the scaffold. Now the Braggadocian guns were loaded, Braggadocian epithets flew, Braggadocian powder burned. Mr. Sherod died by writhes and jerks after a dozen bullets had passed through his dangling body. The Braggadocians smiled grimly at one another and went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Braggadocio | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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