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...company, Glass Egg Digital Media, is one of them. But, says the 39-year-old whose family departed Saigon when he was 12, "There's always been tension between those who stayed and those who left." Many Vietnamese see returnees as carpetbaggers who escaped the lean 1980s and now flaunt their wealth. Viet Kieu businessmen speak of random price hikes from local merchants, sometimes open hostility. Thai says some of that may be their own fault: "Many returnees come in with the mentality that we're better, smarter, wealthier?and we'll tell you how to do things. That...
Sometime after this weekend I’ll graduate and sometime after that I’ll enter the “real world” where most likely my job will not be to flaunt my abs in Vegas’s hottest night spot. But where will I be when I once again have cause to stick my turkey with candles? Of course, I have no idea. Most likely my own little rug rodents won’t be old enough to appreciate the subtle humor that is malicious deception and dream crushing...
...here's the true miracle: she is thoroughly unaffected. She speaks up in class but doesn't flaunt her knowledge. She has the rare ability, unsettling in an adolescent, to bob among different social circles, equally at ease with the bookworms, the jocks and the special-needs kids and, like many other only children, with adults as well. "Often when I'm around her, she's so mature that I completely forget and hear myself talking like she's one of my girlfriends," says family friend Maureen Farrington. But in other ways, Hilary is refreshingly juvenile. Her room...
...line that he never stoops, he conquers. An editor's note in the recent collection "Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker" (which includes five Nash poems) describes this trope as his "uniquely anarchic prosody." But the truth is, he flouted these rules to flaunt his jocosity. Here's one example, About bankers who got into television as a new field, not to tread in but to trample...
...maybe the MCAS. Today at lunch, my table of girls decided they weren’t going to eat lunch for fear they might gain weight. While these 11-year-old girls agonize over every sandwich, their male counterparts are showing off their muscles and manhandling smaller boys to flaunt their strength. One of my students doesn’t understand that sports aren’t everything—that physical strength can only take you so far. And dress—brands, labels, fit, color—become a matter of worry or consuming pride, a friendship maker...