Word: hamming
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...months, he recently left Ravello. Paramount persuaded him to go to Hollywood for a press jamboree to promote Tim Robbins' shrewd, bumptious political film Bob Roberts. Vidal co-stars as an aging liberal Senator, and he does it with authority and panache. His reviews have been excellent, and the ham in him loves it. "I keep saying, 'John Houseman is dead. Maybe I'll get those nice parts...
...preferences of an individual play no role." It is meat-and-potatoes figuration, with no pretensions; if there were any pretensions in this world, where flotillas of loaves sail by in the evening sky like flying saucers and an innocent eye opens in the middle of a slice of ham on your plate, they would greatly reduce its credibility...
...Ham Jordan, left holding...
...fledgling neo-Nazi discuss with a robed Klansman the religious primacy of the white race. A few steps away, a young Kluxer-in- training, his eyes peering out through slits in his hood, explains the history of a camouflaged Klanmobile, a trashed-out Ford Grenada loaded with ham-radio equipment and emblazoned with slogans like WHITE POWER and PRAISE GOD FOR AIDS...
...wants that. Better to be force-fed toasted ham and cheese than to give her cause to start up on the late thing again. She is in her trademark khakis ("look at this hole, from gardening at Fenwick"), black turtleneck, sweater tied over her shoulders. The Gap should pay her royalties. "It was the only sensible way to dress. Anything else was silly. Fussing over clothes. Idiotic...