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...sand dunes of Scotland's northeast coast have a rugged, unadorned beauty and understated elegance. So when Donald Trump flew his private Boeing jet into Aberdeen airport in 2006 and announced, with typical Trumpian bombast, that he intended to construct a billion-dollar-plus development on the dunes that would include the "greatest golf course ever constructed," he set the stage for a protracted conservation battle that on Monday reached the highest level of Scottish government...
...vogue--"The most conspicuous person on the planet," if he did say so himself. The renewed snap in the old boy's garters resounded around the world, as he took stands on American politics that, as his biographer Powers puts it, "beggared the Democrats' timidity and the Republicans' bombast...
...While today we might feel compelled to use the language of gender neutrality, the same sentiment prevails. We want from our leaders not an aristocrat’s aloofness but the broad appeal of a character whittled smooth by hard work and strong values, one given not to bombast but to good country straight talk—be that over potatoes and Yuengling in Altoona, Pennsylvania, or fried steak and Lost Duck in Altoona, Iowa. With some unabashed image engineering, it turns out, nothing else really matters...
...Brendan Benson and the rhythm section from Cincinnati garage trio the Greenhornes. “Broken Boy Soldiers,” their 2006 debut, was pretty much what you’d expect: simple riffs and a few catchy hooks punched up by White’s flare for bombast and the duo’s effusive excitement at the novelty of it all. Not exactly inspired, but not quite MOR either—the kind of one-off experiment meant to whet appetites in anticipation of the main vehicle.That being said, it’s difficult to understand...
...role that Martin made famous, she falls a couple of notches short on the adorability meter. Danny Burstein?s Luther Billis could use more Bilko-esque humor, and Matthew Morrison as Lt. Cable is bland. On the other hand, Paulo Szot, as de Becque, scales down the operatic bombast (with apologies to Ezio Pinza) and finds new depths of emotion in a touching song like This Nearly Was Mine. Nothing, in any event, goes very far wrong in this worthy revival of a show that, while no longer younger than springtime, still gets almost everything right...