Word: brags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relationships among the two old men and two younger ones who purport to be servants but act like thugs. As usual with Pinter, sexual attraction manifests itself in smidgens of affection and buckets of scorn, and the goal of Eros is the adolescent urge to have something to brag about. The sexual linkages, from passion to cuckoldry, get even more complicated in the second act, when the two old men shift from scrutinizing each other as strangers to confronting each other as acquaintances since school days...
...first rule of the confessional is: don't brag -- that's not what you're here for. Hamill violates the rule from time to time. His confessional reproduces the clarity and pain of his childhood and many of its other Brooklyn textures -- the street games of ring-o-levio, the tribal solidarities of the neighborhood, the gangs. Then, as the book proceeds to a record of his own long years of drinking (his often passionate column for the New York Post, his marriage that broke up over drinking, his relationship with the actress Shirley MacLaine), it begins to replicate...
...life imitating rap? Faster than you could rhyme "niggaz" and "triggaz" (standard rap prosody) people were asking whether rappers -- especially those from the Thugs-'R'-Us subcategory called gangsta rap -- are too quick to use the guns they brag about in their songs. "Who is the man with the master plan?" asks a lyric by Snoop Doggy Dogg. "A nigga witta motherf-----' gun." Two weeks ago Snoop, 22, was charged as an accomplice to murder...
Harvard is left, for the most part, with a casually destructive attitude toward Cambridge's vegetation. People here would rather brag about the number of dead trees on library shelves than laud the live ones that turn color outside. The trees that do eke out an existence here have a gritty urban sensibility. They're A Tree Grows in Brooklyn trees, struggling against pollution and graffiti; noble California redwoods or wild New Hampshire oaks they...
...National Collegiate Athletic Association traces its roots all the way back to that spring day when Old Joe became the land's best college tennis player. But if the Crimson can boast about the first crown, it can't brag about many since...