Word: blusterous
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Whose Line, hosted with an easy bluster by Drew Carey (whose sitcom this show follows on ABC), is based on the British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...sides have been locked up in a 14th century castle in Rambouillet, southwest of Paris, under orders from European foreign ministers to come up with an autonomy agreement in two weeks for the province's 2 million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians. But after a week of bluster and posturing, almost nothing has been decided. The Serbs refused even to talk about the text of a possible agreement, engaging instead in a series of diplomatic maneuvers that did nothing but kill time. About the only thing the two delegations could agree on was that they were tired...
...meeting with U.S. envoy Christopher Hill -- who was bearing news that the ethnic Albanian rebels appeared ready to deal -- Milosevic released a statement saying, "Our negative stand about the presence of foreign troops is not only the attitude of the leadership, but also of all citizens in our country." Bluster? Definitely. Bluff? Madeleine Albright certainly hopes so -- because she's made the U.S. position very clear, and did so again earlier Tuesday: Serbs kill the deal, bombs. And "no NATO force," she said, "is a deal-breaker from our perspective...
Recently he told the New Yorker that he "regrets" having given $10,000 to the Clinton defense fund. Now, asked about that remark, he goes all stammery, in the early Hanks mode of bluster and fluster, to explain, "Look, if I hadn't given it then, I would have given it now. As a guy who supports the President of the United States, I think he's doing a fabulous job, and I'm glad I gave him the money." Not that he wasn't shocked by the Lewinsky affair. "In the vast, surrealistic expanse of the Story...
...antitrust case. "As our witnesses come forward, you will see the facts simply don't support the government's claim," the CEO told 2,000 shareholders Wednesday, who responded with a standing ovation. He could hardly tell them otherwise, of course. But this wasn't just optimistic bluster. The software titan, who three years ago told a group of Intel executives that "this antitrust thing will blow over," genuinely has nothing but disdain for the Justice Department. "That's been his line all the way through," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "At no point has Gates taken the government...