Word: highfalutin
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...Rich, a forty-ish owner of a Nashville construction equipment company who had braved the crowds and the heat to get close enough to watch the band without binoculars. "This is the best thing going on in the U.S. this weekend." As for the notion that Radiohead was too highfalutin' for a festival that was famous for tie-dyed jam-band fans, he said, "I hear their new album is kind of a jam band record - most people don't know that...
...laid-back and unpretentious feel at its sprawling Terraces lounge in J.F.K. airport. There are loungers, umbrellas and giant potted plants. Complimentary treatments?including facials and massages?for first-class and Club World passengers at the Molton Brown spa add to the stress-free atmosphere. There are even highfalutin' hydrotherapy showers for the ultimate in pre-flight relaxation...
...laid-back and unpretentious feel at its sprawling Terraces lounge in J.F.K. airport. There are loungers, umbrellas and giant potted plants. Complimentary treatments - including facials and massages - for first-class and Club World passengers at the Molton Brown spa add to the stress-free atmosphere. There are even highfalutin' hydrotherapy showers for the ultimate in pre-flight relaxation. FRANKFURT: With a personal assistant to wait on you until it's time to take off and limousine transfer across the tarmac to your waiting aircraft, Lufthansa's first-class lounge at Frankfurt raises the bar when it comes to service...
...York Drama Critics' Circle. But the high marks mystified me when I saw the show in London, and again in the (virtually identical) New York version. Alan Bennett's comedy-drama about a class of public school boys and their lovably old-fashioned teacher, struck me as a sentimental, highfalutin' version of Welcome Back, Kotter. Only in this case, the teacher (the dismayingly rotund Richard Griffiths) also likes to diddle the boys' privates when he gives them rides home on his motorcycle, and the classroom cut-ups reenact entire scenes from Dark Victory and know all the words to Bewitched...
...there's Showtime's Brotherhood, which debuts in June. That drama, which features two brothers--one a rising politician, the other a small-time crook--is set in Providence, R.I., but also explores fate and circumstance in the mournful, urban-blighted Northeast of a generation ago. "Without getting too highfalutin," says creator Blake Masters about the trend toward villain protagonists, "post-9/11, we hit some of our darkest days, and now we're in a war that will go on for years against an enemy we can't understand. One of the things...