Word: blusterous
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...Boss was back with bluster intact, posing as Napoleon for a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cover. Sportswriters welcomed him, for unlike the drab slumlords who run most teams, Steinbrenner is good copy: a reprobate of Dickensian, comic complexity. And like Saddam Hussein, the principal owner gets to gloat that he is in power while the fellow who humiliated him is out of a job. But the climate has changed since George and the Yanks were last on top. Bobby Bonds makes 10 times what Reggie Jackson did in 1978, and owners say they need a salary cap to restrain themselves from...
...Post columnist calls his new boss "Repo Man." Another newsman in that shop grouses, "We're sort of like a MASH unit. There's never been enough of anything. We don't know if ((Hoffenberg)) is for real. He talks * a good game. If it turns out to be bluster, we've all been duped...
Saddam, with his usual bluster, warned Iraqis that "another great battle" had begun. After another ultimatum from Bush on Friday, the Iraqis promised to allow weapons inspectors to fly to Baghdad, but would not guarantee their safety. The crisis escalated through the weekend when Iraqi radar threatened U.S. jets over the northern no-fly zone and an American F-16 shot down an Iraqi MiG-29. Baghdad seemed intent on contesting control of its skies. Washington said that Saddam would receive no further warning before the U.S. retaliated in force. (See related story on page...
Remember: Some Stars Are Worth the Paycheck. He broods, suicidally, about his blindness. He snarls orders like the Army lieutenant colonel he once was. He pretends to a worldliness that is not entirely authentic, and he can't quite hide the arrested adolescent lurking beneath his spit, polish and bluster. Frank Slade is a piece of work, all right, and playing him Al Pacino is always an actor acting -- in love with his own prodigious technique. For which, thank heaven, it permits him to range boldly outside the conventional lines of Bo Goldman's script for Scent of a Woman...
Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...