Word: fustianeer
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...building is beautiful and moving, and perhaps more so than anything to come, it is over. Its present inhabitants should leave that legacy to the scholars whose critical voyeurism will no doubt make short work of it. In the meantime undergraduate writers need to banish the deadening cloud of fustian and self-importance that inevitably pervades literary-academic communities...
...recent past, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer has been notorious for the fustian message movie (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; Ship of Fools). But in his adaptation of Robert Crichton's bestseller he has wisely opted for entertainment. As the boozy, scapegrace official, Quinn delivers a prosciutto performance-but that is exactly what the part requires. Strutting on the cobblestones, cowering before Rosa, exchanging peasantries with the Germans, he becomes a figure of comic-operatic stature. If Quinn is Italo, Magnani is Italy. The ancient sorrow and strength of the nation are inscribed on a face that...
...hair like that of an extraordinarily unkempt poodle. His face, reporters joked, looked as if it had been slept in. When he spoke, there issued forth a sesquipedalian vocabulary, diapasonal sounds like a Hammond organ in dense fog. His performances had a consciously archaic quality about them. He satirized fustian while indulging in it. His senatorial solemnity was a species of burlesque. He belonged in a Chautauqua rather than a McLuhan age, although he became a master of television performing. His manner, leavened by an exquisite sense of self-parody, conjured up Americana, suggestions of snake-oil peddlers, backwoods Shakespeareans...
...PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Stratford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She nags; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this dubious material, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-though one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help with her Bronx-housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...
...PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Strat-ford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She is always nagging; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this ill wedding, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-but one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help the play with her Bronx housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...