Word: bombastic
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WILL THERE BE WAR? Ecuador's President called the raid a "massacre," and Venezuela's Hugo Chávez added his own bombast about U.S. efforts to spark a regional conflict. But experts say Venezuela and Ecuador rely too much on trade with Colombia to start...
...situation eventually vaporized, as most issues at Harvard tend to, by University President Draw G. Faust agreeing to set up a committee exploring the issue. If the Faculty enjoys this sort of thing, it might be well-advised to set up a debate club for such exercises in hollow bombast. That way, Faculty meetings could be reserved for the accomplishment of actual business. The proposed graduate program in VES, a critical step in remedying Harvard’s flagging involvement in academic visual studies, will now have to wait until the next meeting to move forward. And with the semester...
...typified the immigration debate this past summer. Spitzer’s willingness to compromise and still maintain the integrity of the proposal was exemplary. His opponents did not show the same grace. Clinton, caving under election pressure, was even forced to rescind her support last Wednesday. If such polemic bombast and criticism continues, it is unlikely that comprehensive immigration reform will ever be passed in this country.Raúl A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial comper, lives in Lowell House...
...battlefields--have made his talk of self-effacing harmony seem obsolete. After a brief honeymoon of unanimous opinions in obscure cases, it is the same four Justices on the right and the same four on the left in one high-profile case after another, with Kennedy determining the law. Bombast, rhetorical excess and dueling opinions are thick as Pompeian...
...Most actors did an Antonioni film as a solemn duty, not for the laughs. A sworn enemy of bombast, visual or behavioral, he made his performers reveal more with less. This was particularly tough on his compatriots. Italian actors, and Italians in general, speak with their bodies; each conversation is a performance using the most lavish and vigorous hand gestures. Antonioni stripped them of these flourishes - he either refined the natural tendencies of these actors or he straitjacketed them...