Word: gasbag
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...Future Fair, the narrator says, "For some reason, for some time in the beginning, there were hot lumps. Cold and lonely, they whirled noiselessly through the black holes of space. These insignificant lumps came together to form our first union - our sun, the heating system. And about this glowing gasbag rotated the earth, a cat's-eye among aggies, blinking in astonishment across the face of time." Please give credit where it's due! Phil Proctor, Beverly Hills, California
...Daily Show pulls 1.6 million), more than double Comedy Central's rating for the 11:30 p.m. E.T. time slot a year ago. The network last week extended the show's eight-week run to a full year. It's a tribute to how well Colbert, 41, plays his gasbag alter ego--or to how annoyed his viewers are with the real-life gasbags whom he nails right down to their graphics. In the opening credits of the Report (pronounced re-porr), Colbert waves a U.S. flag, surrounded by a bald eagle, the Statue of Liberty and hortatory adjectives ("BOLD...
...British original. In its second season, The Office proves it's no one's poor American cousin; it captures the absurdities of white-collar life right down to the uncomfortable office parties at Chili's. Steve Carell (The 40 Year-Old Virgin) is dependably fatuous as a gasbag middle manager. But it's the relative unknowns, particularly Jenna Fischer and John Krasinski as co-workers with an unconsummated crush, that give The Office its charm. Never has a lousy job been so much...
George Bernard Shaw tends to be remembered these days as something of a gasbag, capable of writing wry ironies and stately pronouncements but also prone to debating straw men on matters that may once have been passionately topical but now have faded into quaintness. Indeed, Shaw should serve as a warning to play-wrights of the pitfalls of political relevance; by the end of his long life he had seen social change transmute his radical socialism into dusty avuncularity. He is now most celebrated as a mainstream practitioner of the very drawing-room-comedy formulas that he tried to subvert...
Suddenly, the tall bike messenger steps in front of me and says to the Gasbag, "Maybe you should calm down, fella." The Gasbag calms down. I look closely at the bike messenger. It's James Stewart. He has reason to protect me. He knows that I'm The American People...