Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bertolucci recaps most of 20th century Italian history for the primary purpose of preaching doctrinaire Marxism. Whatever one's politics, the bombast is often hard to take: the writer-director's presentation of class warfare has the subtlety of a B western, and he willfully compromises the dramatic structure of 1900 to underscore his dialectic. Yet the movie does frequently take flight-whenever the director's fevered cinematic imagination overrules the Pavlovian reflexes of his radical conscience...
...bombast on both sides, few of Rivlin's critics really believe she will ever become the bureaucratic wallflower some would dearly like her to be. This week she is scheduled to appear again before Bob Giaimo's House Budget Committee and give her colleagues' views on the economy's course for the rest of 1977. Her outlook will probably be much less radiant than the official Administration forecast-and thus cause for yet another round of muttering by agitated politicians...
...support this bold brief, Douglas, who teaches at Columbia University, has rummaged through the cultural bric-a-brac of American Victoriana-ministerial bombast, dreadful 19th century novels, and fatuous, hypocritical ladies' magazines. She has made the proper linkages to British Victorianism and German romantic philosophy. She has analyzed the lives and works of 30 women and 30 liberal clergymen (there was a high percentage of literary Unitarians). There is an excellent chapter on the life of Margaret Fuller, the American Transcendentalist who challenged the sentimental female stereotype by participating in the activity and danger of Italy's struggle...
...most part the Irish in America don't think much about the homeland. Instead they've bothered themselves with making money, becoming "respectable," moving from the shanties to the lace-curtain homes and beyond--green flags now take a back seat to greenbacks. But along with all the forgotten bombast and romance, the quaint but discarded jingoism and superstition, something very real vanished. Somehow, growing up Irish-American became just like growing up American. The melting pot claimed another victim...
...also needed to catch his breath. For one thing, he finds himself caught in his extended metaphor on The Importance of Being Ernest. For another, the second act is more concerned with Lenin, ably portrayed by Jack Bittner. But the speeches he gives are Lenin's own, and political bombast is only amusing in a very bourgeois sense. The act moves to conclusion inexorably picking up speed, and unifying it with the first act is Wood's tremendous performance as Carr. Finally, the end comes, and Carr and the woman he married a long time ago in Aurich waltz stiffly...