Word: falutin
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...record, FM does not endorse final clubs, societies of arts and letters, high-falutin' literary magazines or travel guides despite what our resumes...
...When I was driven around Amman by my host family's father, he pointed to a little boy in the street, playing in the runoff sewer water, as a dramatic explanation of Jordanian pessimism concerning the peace process. How can we, the Jordanian people, be optimistic about some high-falutin peace between kings and prime ministers when we do not have enough water to drink, to grow and to prosper...
...integrity questions are here," Reeves said. "It seems to me that some of us here have very high-falutin' views of ourselves...
...embraced as the vehicle for bringing that dialogue to the wider public. Beginning with Newsweek a month before the film was released, the media has run countless features accompanied by commentaries discussing the state of race relations in this country. It is interesting to note that while these high-falutin' societal spreads have universally praised the movie as an extraordinary achievement, only independent film critics have dared express the truth of the film's artistic mediocrity...
...Spectacular," and it is: big, garrulous, messy, and often (but alas, not always) hilarious. A cast-of-thousands stacked with comedy veterans, from Aykroyd to Belushi to Candy to Slim Pickens to Tim Matheson to . . . to everybody, even Patti LuPone and an uncredited Penny Marshall. Not for the high-falutin, but that scene with the door . . . whooeee...