Word: braggarts
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...promising that she could live in a $3 million Virginia mansion, ride around Washington in a chauffeured town car, even meet Steven Spielberg. But Ratliffe quit after three months and one trip to Beijing, she said, because Chung never made good on his promises. "He was just this big braggart...
Canton is widely regarded as a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first place. But his twisting-in-the-Santa-Ana-winds demise didn't raise spirits at Sony. And he wasn't the only casualty. On Wednesday Variety confidently reported that Arnold Rifkin, worldwide head of motion pictures for the William Morris Agency, had been offered Canton's job. Many observers were surprised, as Rifkin lacks executive experience. But since joining William Morris nearly four years ago, he has done much to re-energize the agency's sleepy movie business, adding such...
...workplace comedy reminiscent of Barney Miller or The Mary Tyler Moore Show. In contrast to sitcoms, which have years to develop nuances, the play instantly sketches the ensemble's mutual mockeries. There's the fussbudget (Lewis J. Stadlen), the hypochondriac (Ron Orbach), the braggart (J.K. . Simmons), the deferential immigrant (Mark Linn-Baker), the Hollywood smoothie (John Slattery), plus two underwritten women, one tough (Randy Graff), one amazingly dumb (Bitty Schram...
...SEXUAL BRAGGART CONQUESTS...
...airtight Jotul 118 or Vermont Castings Defiant or Fisher Papa Bear. (Yes, suburban trendies, from South Carolina to north of Boston, would actually buy, and get all gooey over, a 200-lb. hunk of welded steel that some marketing genius had called a Papa Bear.) This ecological wonder, the braggart would assure other wood burners waiting their turn to boast, would oxidize for 18 hours on a couple of pieces of wet popple. The speaker, newly emigrated to New Hampshire from the burbs of Westchester County, N.Y., was always careful to pronounce poplar "popple" to distinguish himself from flatlanders...