Word: bragging
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...Donna Anna: "Lo giuro, lo giuro/ lo giuro agli occhi tuoi/ lo giuro al nostro amor" (I swear it, I swear it/ I swear it by your eyes/ I swear it by our love). Was there ever a prettier oath? It is a form of hero's brag. That may explain why politicians are so reckless with hyperbolic promise. (Douglas MacArthur: "I shall return,'' a wonderful item of mythic public relations.) Like the ancient kings of Mexico, they like to swear that they will cause the sun to rise, the rain to fall, the crops to grow...
...sleepy farm town of La Grange, Texas, has not had much to brag about since 1976, when a nosy investigative reporter helped close down the Chicken Ranch, the famous brothel celebrated in the Broadway musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. But now La Grange has a different kind of natural resource: "Chicken Ranch No. 1," an oil well that is producing 107 bbl. of low-sulfur crude...
...predictability is irritating as the band crafts each record and each song to sound slightly different than the last: Royal Scam ushered in horn sections; Aja added extended orchestration. Some call Gaucho the quintessential Steely Dan. It "took three years to make," the ads brag. The ads don't mention the contract dispute and auto accident that actually delayed the album. You're supposed to think Dan put more thought into Gaucho than the albums it churned out annually. Not so. When Becker and Fagen assemble an album, it's like a political party picking a presidential candidate: the question...
...fact that intelligent life exists before Walter Cronkite. The total morning-show audience has grown from about 7 million households to more than 10 million in five years. Until recently, watching morning television was for many people like drinking before noon: if you did it, you certainly did not brag about it. Now many more people seem to be sneaking a glance-ABC estimates the average viewer watches 2.0 minutes-at one of the network shows to find out what happened during the night, learn how to guard against heart attacks and prevent wrinkles, hear the latest gossip from Hollywood...
...just parked his car near his home when the two gunmen struck. They pumped six bullets into him and sped away on a motor scooter. Di Leo died instantly. Within an hour, the neo-Fascist Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) claimed responsibility for the killing -and even phoned // Messaggero to brag about it. "This evening our commando executed Concina..." the caller began. "No, you son of a bitch," shouted the switchboard operator in tears. "You didn't kill Concina. You murdered someone else." While Maurizio Di Leo lay dead in the street last week, // Messaggero Reporter Michele Concina, author...