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Word: brags (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheen and shine until years later. In Hollywood's case, it was many years later. East Coast intellectuals, who thought that the only real acting was done on Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled several hundred memoirs. "Who wants to see some dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: 1939: Twelve Months of Magic | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

WASHINGTONIANS are normally proud of their city, eager to brag about their clean streets, beautiful monuments and low unemployment. But ask them about their local politics, and they will run and hide behind the Lincoln Memorial...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Marion Barry, National Shame | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...friends reminded me of those days when I used to brag about the Cowboys--how the Cowboys were the best thing since wiffle ball. They suggested that Dallas drop out of the league for two years and come back as an expansion team...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: The Cowboys Will Return to Preeminence | 1/13/1989 | See Source »

...group does nothing to hide its official name -- the Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female Vocal Choir -- but the copy on the label and jacket doesn't exactly brag about it either. Le Mystere is so much more mellifluous and -- no getting around it -- mysterious. Just like the music itself, in fact. The wonder of both Le Mystere excursions is provided by the range of the voices and the surprise of the melodies. The music sounds African, Middle European and otherworldly, like a collision around a sharp mountain turn between Peter Gabriel's score for The Last Temptation of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voices From Another Time | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

Oakland's first hit wasn't much to brag about. Luis Polonia opened the fourth with a dribbler to the right side of the mound that Clemens fielded cleanly but then threw wide of first baseman Todd Benzinger. Polonia was credited with a single and was given second on Clemens' error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics Freeze Out Red Sox, 4-3; Boston Hopes Rest With Boddicker | 10/7/1988 | See Source »

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