Word: bravados
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...schoolyard drug pusher -- and publicly survives only as a vestige of James Dean rebelliousness. Denis Leary's very funny pro-smoking rants are essentially ironic; taken seriously, they would come across as nostalgia for a life misspent. In the recent film Reality Bites, the one hint of Generation X bravado is that all the hipsters smoke and nobody cares...
Screenwriter Curtis apparently sought to imbue Carrie with some Catherine Trammell-like sexual bravado. As if Carrie didn't already seem shallow enough, in what is inarguably one of the worst scenes of the movie, (to MacDowells' credit, Carrie is poorly written as well as poorly acted), she dispassionately ticks off a list of her thirty-three lovers since her sexual initiation as a young teen. Are we to believe that Charles, who calls himself "a git that has only slept with about nine girls" is oh-so smitten by Carrie's sexual prowess? This hardly seems likely since...
...looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike D raps "I live my life just how I like to," it is clearly more than commonplace rap bravado. These guys have it made. They're also in credibly stylish: they started bringing back the '70s way before anyone else thought it was hip (check out their seminal video for "Hey Ladies"). Next time you see a crowd of kids in cool old-style sneakers (Gazelles, Shell-Toes, One Stars...
...million repair bill for Endeavour's house call). The astronauts also created a kind of time warp. For a few days, America was back in the 1960s, an era when space was a grand frontier to be tamed, and when NASA's technical brilliance and right-stuff bravado made the agency seem virtually unstoppable as it sent men into orbit and on to the moon...
...current power of the legislative youngsters as expressed in their killing the supercollider marked legislative bravado in and of itself. But any assertion of their power as a unified political force will be limited by the sharp divide spanning party lines that surfaced over NAFTA...