Word: brags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Benson High School last year, and works digging fence holes while awaiting trial. "I'm trying to stay away from guns now, but it's like everybody has them. Guys will be like, 'I've got a 9-mm, and you've only got a peashooter.' Or they'll brag that 'my brother has a MAC-10.' As crazy as it's getting, I think it should be illegal to have a gun," he says...
...find yourself in a money pit, try not to brag about it. It's one thing to wave off the corporate bean counters' attempts at cost control, as a studio source says Columbia president Mark Canton did last winter on Last Action Hero, but Canton and his boss, Sony Pictures chairman Peter Guber, were publicly cavalier about the mega-yen budget. A modestly priced Last Action Hero, Guber said at a conference in March, "would wind up being Last starring Arnold Schwarz." At the time, the line seemed funny...
...fact, try not to brag at all. "Canton was crowing, 'This is the big one; this is the best thing I've done,' " says an executive who has worked with Canton. "Well, he said that once before." That would be a reference to the disastrous Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990, which at the time Canton called "the best movie we've ever made...
...like girls who come on too strong, her brother set her straight. "He said he'd like it if girls came after him. I'll always be grateful to him for saying that." Her classmate Tammy Weisberger notes that like so many boy jocks, girls on her soccer team brag about whom they've slept with -- but with a difference. "The guys say how many girls they did it with. With the girls, it's who they did it with...