Word: bumptiousness
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...that's a cardinal sin in the bumptious, peevish world of jazz, where, as it's said about academic politics, the knives are so sharp because the stakes are so low. The grievance? Along comes a young, good-looking, white jazz singer who mostly performs familiar standards and stays pretty close to the melody--Diana Krall was the last such transgressor--and an entire generation of innovators gets ignored. Sad to say, this is absolutely accurate. It's also irrelevant--this kid can sing...
...Cheney's closemouthed approach to his medical history has only encouraged more questions about it. His latest coronary episode, and the bumptious way the news went public, is likely to stir them up further. After Bush spoke, there was more confusion at a news conference held by the doctors who attended Cheney at the hospital. Alan Wasserman, president of the hospital's medical faculty associates, mentioned that Cheney's second blood test for the cardiac enzymes given off by a damaged heart muscle showed that Cheney's "enzyme levels were slightly elevated." Anyone who is not a cardiologist might suppose...
...Society in New York City and will travel to six cities in the U.S. and Canada. It reverently brings together her lifetime of work in conceptualism, performance art, experimental music, underground film and whatever else she has tried her hand at, including shrewd self-promotion and a kind of bumptious pop stardom...
Nobody is suggesting a government body to meddle in popular culture. The real aim here is to intimidate the entertainment companies into reining in themselves, as they did with the bumptious movie-industry Hays office of the 1930s and '40s and the Comics Magazine Association of America, an industry group formed in 1954 after Senate hearings into bloody and smutty comic books. It gave its seal of approval only to comic books that went easy on the cleavage and eye gouging. Most retailers would not sell comics that did not earn the association's seal. The system broke down...
...second hearing for next week that the execs are expected to fit into their calendars. Nobody is suggesting a government body to meddle in popular culture. The real aim here is to intimidate the entertainment companies into reining in themselves, as they did with the bumptious movie-industry Hays office of the 1930s and '40s and the Comics Magazine Association of America, an industry group formed in 1954 after Senate hearings into bloody and smutty comic books. It gave its seal of approval only to comic books that went easy on the cleavage and eye gouging. Most retailers would...