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Word: braggadocio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time the fight broke out between Glover and Winchell, the atmosphere was poisoned. "I can't believe it," Glover confided to his fellow grunts after Winchell floored him. "I won't let a faggot kick my ass." But Winchell apparently had dismissed Glover's death threat as more braggadocio. And he didn't relish his win. "Why," he asked a fellow soldier, "do people have to push me like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do People Have To Push Me Like That? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...patriot, Bond is the paragon of thoughtful manliness, which is not always an oxymoron. He is intelligent but not reflective, independent (the "00" in "007" represents a license to kill) but not reckless, reliable but not predictable. Consider, by contrast, the brutish strength of professional athletes, or the thoughtless braggadocio of action heroes like Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the like. Bond is a caricature of manliness, to be sure, but not an altogether unflattering...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Always an Icon, A Bond in the '90s | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...them can do to help the Chilldrin's situation. While C.O.G. has the lingo and feel of urban America, there is little beneath the surface. The album is a blur of repetitive basslines that bleed from one track to the next; the rhymes are lousy, and the braggadocio and self-references that make contemporary rap such flamboyant entertaining falls flat here. It is difficult to distinguish the three group members except that they all fall off rhythm. As a result, the majority of the tracks on the album resemble each other too closely. Two tracks stood out, mainly because they...

Author: By John A. Burton, | Title: Album Review: Chilldrin of da Ghetto | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...always a struggle. With these diets, you just feel miraculously free of the craving and the drive to eat." The weight-beleaguered Cathy confronted the low-carb diet craze in her comic strip last week, uncharacteristically stifling an "Aack!" through five days of her co-workers' cheeseburger-eating braggadocio. Demand for beef in 1999 is projected to rise 1.6% over last year, and for pork 2.3%. Having it your way now includes having a plate, fork and knife included with a bunless Whopper at Burger King. Celebrities and everyday folks alike are bragging about the bacon and eggs they downed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Low-Carb Diet Craze | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Nineteen cuts long and teeming with guest stars--Jay-Z, Lil Kim, Nas--the second album from hip-hopreneur Sean Combs is a sprawling, colorful tapestry with something for everyone: hard-core braggadocio, clever sampling (Christopher Cross pops up), label-conscious odes to celebrity life (Miramax and Bentley get name checks) and a few songs made for the dance floor. But the spiritual musings of the title cut and the chill of death blowing through Pain, the album's gripping cautionary street tale, show Puffy grappling with something deeper: the conflicting demands of two worlds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Forever, Puff Daddy | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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