Word: flaunting
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...Things are evolving to a period where if you've got it, flaunt it," says Pamela Parmal, curator of textile and fashion arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. "We live in a gilded age, not unlike previous centuries when you had an extremely wealthy class that wasn't afraid to show off that wealth...
...strolling through a park on my first afternoon in Paris, I saw five couples making out in the span of five minutes. That has to set some sort of record. It seems that everyone in Paris gets some action. Young and old, rich and poor, gay and straight all flaunt their sexual satisfaction...
...Once admitted, members are "patched," with the right to flaunt the gang's emblem on clothes or in fearsome tattoos on faces, shoulders and bodies. Sociologist Jarrod Gilbert says the latter practice grew out of a combination of jailhouse tattoos and traditional Maori moko. "They would be the only street gangs in the world to tattoo a patch onto their face," he says. Members tell of one Mongrel Mob initiate whose enthusiasm so exceeded his intelligence that he used a mirror while tattooing the gang's name across his own face-backward...
...Beware of the trappings of entitlement, which continue whether the entitlement is justified or not. Everywhere you go, people will simultaneously expect great things from you and be ready to knock you down. The more you flaunt that you’re there to change the world, and that you are credentialed to do so because of your fine Cambridge alma mater, the more people will try to put you in your place. Rely on your personal strengths, not on your credentials. They’ve both been earned in your four years here, but the former will serve...
...wouldn't expect the head of Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, to say the rich are boring. But Ratan Tata comes close. Acting rich doesn't interest him. "I've never had the desire to own a yacht, to flaunt," he says. Nor does the Prada-wearing class excite him as a marketing opportunity. China and India, with their growing ranks of tycoons, should attract multinational[an error occurred while processing this directive] businesses, not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone...