Word: boor
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...still can’t seem to choose a side. I have reservations about war, but I hesitantly support it. And this viewpoint deserves the same respect the fringe gets. I do not want to hear from my pro-peace friends that I’m a hypocritical boor, and I don’t want to hear from war supporters that I’m not being patriotic enough. Just because us moderates aren’t holding up banners reading “We support the war, kind of” does not make our opinions irrelevant. Instead...
...drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself...
Meloni transcends the script, playing Fuhrman slyly, as a charismatic boor with a lizardy grin. But his performance only reminds us what the story could have been if told by someone not so close to the hero. As it is, it's a trite but inadvertently intriguing whodunit about a bitter adolescent whose vanity and resentment make him act out in ugly ways. Oh, and it's about Michael Skakel too. --By James Poniewozik
...Jack Black), a cheerful boor in denial about the foxy women who deny him, meets a heavenly being (motivational flack Tony Robbins!) who lets Hal see the beauty of homely women--to him, the hippopotamic Rosemary looks like Gwyneth Paltrow. This fable, with its Shrek-like conceit, could be the Farrellys' mission statement about their fascination with human eccentricities: retardation in There's Something About Mary, albinism in Me, Myself & Irene, obesity, spinal bifida and vestigial tails here. We mock, they say, because we care. But that doesn't make the film elevating or amusing. Torpor sticks to the actors...
...Rams whittled the lead down to two with 55 seconds left in the first half on a three-pointer from junior guard Shannon Boor...