Word: brags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House internships, those coveted slave-labor assignments of so many gov jocks, will ever earn back their former prestige. For now, Harvard students who put their White House jobs on top of their resumes will pause as they carefully define their "experience." Meanwhile, their parents, once thrilled to brag about their offspring's political stardom, will now tell people that their children worked "in Washington, in, uh...well--oh, I don't remember, maybe in the Senate or something...
RAMZI AHMED YOUSEF Gets 240 years of solitude. World Trade bomber, proud to be a terrorist, will have no one to brag...
...over-achievement that Harvard men can and do brag about, dating and romance are absent from that list. And, with good reason. Male-female relationships on this campus are a rare, endangered species for the most part. The problem is deeper than Harvard men's lack of experience. Campus women are also socially backward. I don't deny reality. We also sacrificed a social life in high school in order to cultivate the achievement level that catapulted us into this University...
QUENTIN ("MR. WHITE") TARANTINO AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Director who really wants to act BEST PUNCH: Trying to sound like an honorary black man, Tarantino went on television to brag to Keenan Ivory Wayans that he "bitch slapped" producer Don Murphy during a fight at a swank L.A. restaurant...
...used to have something to brag about at the coffee shop if you caught someone going 100, but now you see it every day," says Sergeant Larry Strickland, who pulled a guy over at 105 only to hear him gripe, "No way, officer. I was only doing 96." The problem with "reasonable and prudent," troopers argue, is that there aren't three fuzzier words in U.S. lawbooks...