Word: braggadocios
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SIMON'S AUDIENCE that Thursday afternoon was the most genteel I'd ever seen at the Lowell Lecture Hall (where only six days previously Mr. Mailer had regaled a rowdy bunch with pungent braggadocio). Strike activities and riot scares had daunted all but the most dyed-in-the-silk aesthetes amongst undergrads. Professors and their wives dominated the thirty present, along with scattered unafilliated ladies. But Smiles of the Summer Night--Simon's subject for the day--is the most polite of Bergman's films...
...outgoingness, the high spirits, are not to be confused with braggadocio. The stigma of being called a war criminal, the 19 agonizing months of facing charges for premeditated murder, have taken their toll. When the Army first charged him, Calley went into a deep depression. "After about a month," he explains, "I just faced myself and asked, Do you want to quit living?' At worst, t knew I had one year left, and I decided I wanted to do something before 1 die. I decided I would look other people in the eye again...
PAUSING recently to change some currency at Paris' Orly Airport, a traveling Texan flourished a $10 bill and exclaimed: "This is real money." For decades the Texan's braggadocio has been largely justified. The dollar is the only big-power currency that has escaped devaluation since World War II. The non-Communist world runs not on a gold standard but a dollar standard. Other countries value their own money in terms of dollars, keep much of their reserves in dollars, and often settle international accounts in dollars. Confidence in U.S. money allows American traders and travelers to spend...
...perhaps misleadingly boastful mobsters discussed him and other prominent politicians as so many common stocks to be bought, held and discarded (TIME, Jan. 19). As the trial of Addonizio and seven others, including reputed Mafioso Anthony (Tony Boy) Boiardo, began, the Government argued that there was more than braggadocio connecting the mayor and the mob. Addonizio, the Government said, had left a safe congressional seat to make "a million dollars" as mayor and then set about doing it by getting the mob to force city contract kickbacks into a secret bank account. That, replied the indignant mayor, was "the most...
...ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...