Word: blusterer
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...Bertelli accused Ford of stealing his wife's ideas: "They did black nylon bags and put their bamboo handles on them; they did our high-gloss calfskin--they started using all our materials," he said. "It doesn't make sense. Gucci should follow its own strategy, not mine." Such bluster, says a Gucci spokesman, is common among fashion designers. Ford and De Sole have ignored...
...George Steinbrenner with a voice" was the epithet coined by a colleague of mine--born in the baby boom's dead center, it should be noted--who objects to the bad-hair Republican bluster of Sinatra's later years, his belting out of all those anthems of middle-aged self-assertion. He did it his way. He can make it anywhere. He picks himself up and gets back in the race--that's life, or Sinatra's blowhard version of it anyway. It is the artfully projected world view of a casino entertainer, a glorified greeter, whose...
...with the U.N. Official Iraqi newspapers are making dark threats of sanctions-busting, while foreign minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told the New York Times Sunday that "trade has already started." Whether that means Iraq is selling oil illegally, risking another Gulf conflict, al-Sahaf wouldn't say. But bluster or otherwise, the timing of his statement was no accident. The Security Council can consider itself duly warned...
...battle-seasoned White House, where sex scandals come and go, where the harshest Republican bluster can be deflected and where the thorniest policy questions are routinely polled into submission, it takes something truly scary to cause real trepidation. But fear suffused the White House last fall when members of President Clinton's economic team began their first, tentative debate on tinkering with Social Security. Even on internal schedules that do not leave the building, they cloaked their sessions under the name "special-issue meetings." To stay below the radar, they skulked into the office of National Economic Council chairman Gene...
...scene belonged on trash TV, full of staged bluster and righteous fury and lots and lots of diversions. There was James Carville, the President's alpha attack dog, daring independent counsel Kenneth Starr to subpoena him by mocking both his faith and his fervor. "He goes down to the Potomac and listens to hymns as the cleansing water of the Potomac goes by, and we're going to wash all sodomites and fornicators out of town," Carville said. There was Starr deploring what he described as an "avalanche of lies" that had paralyzed his investigation, by which he meant...