Word: bragging
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...Linney's not the type to brag. Although she was raised in Manhattan (her father is playwright Romulus Linney) and trained at the Juilliard School, she retains a soft southern drawl and kind manners acquired during childhood summers spent with relatives in Georgia. Still, this non-diva is a prized commodity in the New York City theater, where she's starred in "Uncle Vanya." Indie filmmakers love her too; she can currently be seen in Terence Davies' adaptation of Edith Wharton's "The House of Mirth." And she has a nice little cult following owing to her role as sexual...
...must place next to others, domino style. If you clear the board, you move up to the next harder level with more colors and symbols. The higher you go, the harder it gets--and the more exalted the rank you achieve when at last you lose. Not to brag, but I have got as high as Alchemist third degree, which is one rank above Grand Wizard. And two above my wife...
...time after the Cold War and America is now the sole world superpower, we have a Congress, half of whom don't have passports and brag in their districts that they do not travel outside the country. America is walking away from its responsibility and that has to change," Kerry said...
...change horses in midstream," Mario Cuomo tells us. But Clinton and Gore were not the horse that brought us across the stream--the American people made the great economic current that pushed Clinton and Gore safely to shore. And now the latter brag at how they used the spurs and whip...
Even when pressed last Friday morning on the Today show about why he wasn't talking about his Executive record, Gore didn't take the gimme moment in front of 6 million viewers to brag about welfare reform, a balanced budget, free-trade agreements, low crime rates and newly protected wilderness areas. "This race is about the future," he stammered instead. "President Clinton is my friend... But I'm not satisfied. I'm running on who I am and on my own." Gore denies friction with his White House partner, and aides insist they're not worried about being tied...