Word: bombastics
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Political bombast can be marvelous theater. It helps the ratings. Cutting up rascals is a joy because there are so many of them around. A lot of what Carter said happens to be true. And just about everybody loves to see somebody else get a well-deserved whack. Of course, Carter's new presidential tack has also produced some lively criticism, particularly from those who are disappointed...
...ended a 2,612-mile feminine relay that began last September in Seneca Falls, N.Y., where a doughty band of suffragettes had held the first national women's conference in 1848. And so began-with hoopla, bombast, some unsisterly rancor and, overall, deadly serious intentions-the largest political conference of women ever assembled in the country. The nearly 2,000 delegates and more than 12,000 observers who later jammed Sam Houston Coliseum for the three-day National Women's Conference provided some answers to Freud's vexing question: What does a woman want...
...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...