Word: blowhard
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...momentous in a conclusion about the necessity of love, but that message is articulated every week on Laugh-In: "Whatever turns you on . . ." Night is by Leonard Melfi, considered one of off-Broadway's emerging playwrights. At a pseudo-lyric funeral, a group mourns the loss of their blowhard leader. A new con-mannerist appears, spouting worthless dreams, and they all follow him off in a witless parody of resurrection...
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...Little Blowhard. Nobody argued. When Finley took over, the Athletics were so deep in the American League cellar that he needed a flashlight to find them. Over 27 seasons in Philadelphia and Kansas City, the A's struggled into the first division only twice, finished dead last 13 times. "The worst team in the history of baseball," somebody once called them, and Former Owner Arnold Johnson made matters worse by turning the team into a kind of farm club for the New York Yankees-trading away such stars as Roger Maris, Cletis Boyer, Ralph Terry, Hector Lopez...
...orange, then boasting: "I may not have the best team, but I sure have the sexiest ballpark." He installed all kinds of odd gimmicks-a "Fan-O-Gram" that spelled out messages on the Scoreboard (sample: "Welcome to Paul Richards and his flock of chirping Baltimore Orioles"), a "Little Blowhard" that dusted home plate with compressed air, a mechanical rabbit named Harvey that rose out of the ground and fed baseballs to the umpire. He dressed his A's in green-and-gold uniforms ("Kelly green and Finley gold," explained one player), installed a flock of green-andgold-blanketed...
...make candles. With the abundant light comes madness-or perhaps, indeed, the aberration is sanity. They will not fight. Riglioni refuses to lead them. The colonel's aide tries to pry them from their cellar refuge and finds himself looking down the barrel of a Thompson gun. The blowhard captain arrives, sermonizes plaintively at the figures crouched around the huge, 9-ft. candles, and is told to take his precious behind back to headquarters. He leaves. The Germans counterattack. The men are killed...