Word: fustianeer
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...film's philosophy is open to debate, its psychiatry to ridicule, but its actors are open only to ovation. Orson Welles, frazzle-pated, barrel-bellied, hollow-eyed, creates a fetching caricature of the great trial lawyer, all fustian and a yard wide. Bradford Dillman, the Straus-Loeb, is alarmingly screw loose and frenzy free. But it is Dean Stockwell, as Steiner-Leopold, who dominates the drama. His intensity and insight do much to explain the character's homosexuality, do something to clarify his fearful crime...
...fine, fustian fettle, Harry Truman stepped on to the rostrum at Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week and told about his first military experience in the National Guard. "I was 21," said the President, and all decked out in a handsome blue uniform complete with "red stripes down the britches." He wore it to visit his old, red-haired grandmother, Mrs. Solomon Young, whose farm had been looted by Federal soldiers during the Civil War. "Harry," she said, looking him over carefully, "that's the first time since 1865 that a blue uniform has been in my house...
...Such Fustian." Judge Hand went right to the point. The courts, he wrote, must find their way through Holmes's rubric "as they can." He suggested a guidepost: "In each case they [the courts] must ask whether the gravity of the 'evil,' discounted by its improbability, justifies such invasion of free speech as is necessary to avoid the danger...
...unhappy, bitter outcast vent his venom before any crowds he can muster . . . One may trust that his patent impotence will be a foil to anything he may propose. Indeed, it is a measure of the confidence of a society in its own stability that it suffers such fustian to go unchecked. [But] here we are faced with something very different"-i.e., the American Communists, who secretly conspire, conceal their membership, take orders from abroad...
...Forbidden Street (20th Century-Fox) is a plushy piece of theatrical fustian spun from Britannia Mews, the bestseller by British Novelist Margery Sharp. Full of fine careless raptures and even more careless improvisations, it tells a story as cluttered with plot as a Victorian interior...