Word: blusterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality in this movie, playing the nutso commandant. Melding two of his better characters from previous films--gung-ho Gen. Buck Turgidson of Dr. Strangelove and bloodthirsty Gen. George S. Patton of Patton--Scott portrays a feeble ex-warrior who fails to make the crucial distinction between parade-ground bluster and actually killing for a principle. He doesn't intend to send the youngsters on a suicide mission, but he is the first one to talk about footholds and not giving in without a fight. Before things get out of hand, Scott interprets Bache's personal plight as an obsolete...
...other issues, Papandreou's personality seems split between the bluff and bluster of the consummate politician and the ideological pronouncements of a dedicated Socialist. Papandreou's ambivalence was particularly apparent in his first major policy speech last week when he waffled on the two key foreign policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO...
...apparent clouds on the horizon were the clouds on the horizon-an Atlantic storm that could pose a landing problem should the mission have to abort. But the go-ahead was given and the final countdown begun. Only in its last nine minutes did the mechanical elements start to bluster...
...room of his Cambridge house, but he says the temptation to lampoon our current national and personal follies never overcomes him. It's easy to get the impression that things may just not be as funny as they were in Lehrer's prime. Perhaps the combination of ego and bluster to which Lehrer attributed most of the world's ills no longer suffices as an explanation, even in comedy; perhaps humor today--from Mork to Garp--must live on its own, away from the world, because the world isn't very funny. Tom Lehrer, on the other hand, thought people...
...forward manner betrays a touch of bluster, but Hamlin's combination of complete honesty and friendliness precludes any arrogance. You get a pleasant glow after talking with him, regardless of whether you agree with him on politics (as the conservative club's vice president, he burned a Soviet flag on the steps of Memorial Church to protest the massing of troops near Poland), the military (he loves it, though he hates war, favors nuclear disarmament, and thinks part of the defense budget "should be allocated to building tables around which we can talk reasonably with the Russians") or general outlook...