Word: brags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought wit, intelligence and self-effacing humor to auto advertising, up to then dour and staid. One featured the line "Think small," which was heresy in the days when Detroit was building gigantic gas guzzlers. Another showed a VW partially submerged in water, and proud owners began to brag, "It floats." In 1969, in celebration of the first U.S. manned moon landing, VW ran a picture of the lunar-excursion module with the caption: "It's ugly, but it gets you there...
...Greene writes in Dallas USA, "the old Big D arrogance was gone for years, drained away by attacks against which no defense was allowed. If someone reads Dallas newspapers of the seventies, for instance, it will be found that few local columnists ever displayed the old Dallas, or Texas, Brag...
Burton loved to brag about how much he could drink, but his bouts with booze caused Taylor to divorce him in 1974. Fourteen months later they remarried in Botswana, with two rhinos and a hippo among the witnesses; but a second divorce soon followed. He married, divorced and married again. His fourth wife Sally was with him last week when he was stricken at their modest villa in the Swiss village of Céligny, where, dressed in red, the Welsh national color, he was also buried. The services included the familiar words of Dylan Thomas and the strains...
...short, Lee seems uncomfortable with the subject--he can't decide whether to brag about or apologize for his skirt chasing...
...whether its diction is failed lyricism or failed realism. But it is neither: its first director, Elia Kazan, says it is written "just off the real." Miller's people are first-and second-generation Americans who have yet to achieve a perfect-pitch imitation of standard American brag, bluff and bluster; their language is thus a precise and moving metaphorical expression of the uneasiness with which they live in the American dream they have not quite assimilated. By touching this language with the accents of Brooklyn's old ethnic neighborhoods, this company simultaneously grounds the dialogue...