Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Giscard's scare tactics and Mitterrand's bombast were designed to affect French voters decisively when they go to the polls May 10 for the second round of balloting. But because of the peculiarity of the French electoral system, the final outcome depends not only on the win ners but also on the losers of the first-round vote. Though Giscard and Mitterrand captured the greatest number of ballots in the first vote, thus eliminating the eight other candidates for the presidency, two of the los ers, Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais...
...epic tradition. He has brought a showman's flair to the project, commissioning a score from his composer father, Carmine, who led the American Symphony at last weekend's premiere. It is-as silent film scores always were-full of quotations from the masters and plenty of bombast. (After a few more special evenings in major cities, the film will go into general release.) Anyone interested in the history of the cinema will want to see Napoleon. Even those less devoted to film, or less concerned than Gance was with French national mythology, will find plenty to beguile...
When Presidents themselves talk that way, it is not merely campaign bombast aimed at the hinterlands. Jimmy Carter entered Washington as a stranger, and has never been accepted...
...Fourth of July speech today is seldom the shapely purple cloud of bombast that it once was. That style is nearly extinct. The old eagle-screaming rhapsody, the Everlasting Yea, survives mostly in wistful, or merely empty, references to Jefferson, in Smithsonian pageants or in the elegiac drone of a speaker recalling something that happened a long, long time ago, almost in another country...
...trial was as meandering as the Suwannee River. For 16 weeks, lawyers argued their cases before Atlanta Judge Charles A. Moye Jr.-with the help of courtroom bombast, some 20,000 documents and 173 witnesses, including testimonials from luminaries like Lillian Carter. Finally, after mulling over the evidence for eight days, the jurors last week reached a verdict. They found former Budget Director Bert Lance not guilty on nine counts of bank fraud, but deadlocked on three other counts of banking violations. As the jurors filed out of the courtroom, several of them waved at Lance and his wife LaBelle...