Word: gasbag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...everyone is in a lather. World-history professor Dan Sipe uses Keene's work in discussing everything from economics to philosophy. As in, What is art? (It was Sipe's musings that prompted drawing professor Steve Sherman to call him a gasbag, at which point the argument degenerated into obscenities.) Art-history student Heather Nash, a Keene fan, says, "I've never seen an exhibit here that produced this much enthusiasm." She's talking about the visitors--some of them doing their holiday shopping--who wait for the gallery to open each day. Darren Check, a law student at Temple...
Garner, who has never met Johnson, and who deliberately avoided reading the book, plays him as a salty-mouthed backslapper who is always quick with a joke and whom everyone seems to like. Johnson comes off as a likable gasbag -- a rogue perhaps, but deep down inside an O.K. guy. Garner is simply too appealing to capture Johnson's reptilian qualities...
...Washington and its ways. To these critics, it is the very symbol of congressional arrogance of power, isolation from reality, contempt for the voters, and so on, and demonstrates the need for term limits if not lynching. Bob Byrd, formerly thought to be at worst a courtly, fiddle-playing gasbag, is portrayed as a voracious monster of the pork barrel...
...House Narcotics Committee. "He must be smoking cigarettes without printing if he thinks he can lead me to any city, town or village and find anybody who will say, 'Thank you, Bill Bennett, there's light at the end of the tunnel.' " "Mr. Rangel," Bennett retorted, "is a gasbag...