Word: blusterous
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...play need not be so dour and melodramatic as Director Michael Kirby makes it. He has almost all of his characters bluster at each other from the moment the show begins. There are many scenes in which he rides roughshod over the poetry of the script. The small insights into character are one of Garcia Lorca's main assets as poet and play-wright, and by throwing them away he hamstrings the whole production. A bit of humor as well as more understanding and less frenetic acting would give the play vastly more verisimilitude, and in consequence make the tragedy...
...Last Word: Groucho Marx collided with CBS's witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence...
...Matter of Batting. In the midst of Russia's dangerous mixture of bluster and acknowledged technological performance, the free world can take considerable satisfaction from the fact that the U.S. Air Force is in command of a brilliant, unobtrusive West Pointer with a flair for understatement. Tommy White, 56, a tall, austere airman with a ramrod-back carriage, well knows the Russian danger, well knows the need to tighten and use the bomber force-in-being to best advantage while the U.S. brings in its missile force...
...leading actors were nearly as good as student drama can produce. The enormous Shakespearean bluster and kingly extravagance that so rarely come across in a younger actor are perfectly mastered by Mark Mirsky as the king. He is able to convey this extravagant emotion with a quality of real virility and passion that does not fall short of excellence...
Erudite, self-assured and sometimes petulant, Hailsham, a devout Tory of the "For Queen and Country" tradition, does not suffer fools gladly-and he includes as fools a wider group than do more prudent politicos. Outspoken to the point of bluster, courageous to the point of rashness, he sounded off from the Lords against nationalized industry, Socialism ("imposed equality"), in favor of capital punishment, against lowbrow radio and TV programs, and above all, for a "firm" British line in foreign affairs. After Suez he came into his own as the party's favorite orator, blurting openly what many Conservatives...