Word: bombastics
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...tragedy is that in the contentious climate of Washington, the struggle becomes the end in itself, the media relishing the daily bombast, the Congress determined to trim the presidential wings, the President dedicated to preserving his rights of passage. Important issues get slighted...
...bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty -- and, as we now know, banishment. One of Nixon's gumshoes must...
Though Kinison stretches the bounds of good taste, his bombast can be furiously funny. His rantings against women, for instance, may outrage some, but they are a cathartic antidote to cool yuppie relationship-speak, brazen in their sheer excess. "I'm not worried about hell," he says, " 'cause I was ((exploding into a shout)) married for two f years! Hell would be like Club Med!" A stint at the piano for a song to his ex-girlfriend turns into a string of obscenities ending with "I want my records back!" His blasphemous accounts of the Last Supper and the Resurrection...
...earned a Bronze Star and a MASH unit's worth of physical and emotional wounds in the jungles of Viet Nam, has transformed his war experience -- the bad dream he lived through for 15 months in 1967-68 -- into a film called Platoon. With craft, crackle, a little bombast and plenty of residual rage, he has created a time-capsule movie that explodes like a frag bomb in the consciousness of America, showing how it was back then, over there...
...Islamic Jihad, the extremist group holding them, and played on American TV last Friday. Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press, contrasted "2 1/2 years of empty talk and refusals to act on the part of the Reagan Administration" in his case with the "propaganda and bombast with which that Administration solved the problem of Mr. Daniloff." Reagan said Friday that "there is no comparison." The hostages in Lebanon, he said, "were not seized by a government. We don't know who's holding them. There's never been any contact between their kidnapers...