Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maury, 81, soft-spoken lawyer-turned-journalist who wrote hard-hitting, influential editorials for the New York Daily News from 1926 to 1972, lecturing readers on the dangers of Communism and bad grammar, lampooning public figures and once describing U.N. headquarters as "a glass cigar box jam-packed with pompous do-gooders, nervy deadbeats, moochers, saboteurs, spies and traitors"; of pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Schooled in controversy, Maury spent the early 1940s simultaneously turning out anti-interventionist, anti-F.D.R. tracts for the right-wing News and pro-interventionist, pro-F.D.R. views for the editorial page of liberal Collier...
...else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where she works as a waitress. Shirley, a black former cab driver who was the wise and friendly heroine of One in a Million, inherited a conglomerate, but she was counterpointed against another executive who was pompous, stiff and stupid...
...notable exception is the work of a precocious 25-year-old named Jedd Garet, whose paintings seem to take their stylistic base from, of all things, late De Chirico- not the pre-1918 master of tailor's dummies and spare, aching urban spaces, but the pompous neoclassicist of the '30s. Coarsely colored and drawn with a kind of savvy crudeness, Caret's Flaming Colossus, 1980, resembles nothing so much as a black squid with humanoid ambitions, silhouetted against a conventionally "apocalyptic" background of fire. Yet on this preposterous level, it does work as an image, generating enough...
...Weicker has the worst reputation of anyone I know of in the Senate, in terms of being pompous and arrogant," Dolan says of his old boss. "Even those on the left wing have congratulated me for going after...
Some of them will know they are confused, and others will think they are not. But it is not shameful to be confused by Picasso, and only the most dishonest or pompous art historians will tell you they "understand" Picasso. It is therefore important to at least give yourself a fighting chance and look at the drawings in the context of the chronology of the artist's life, as they are hung. Unfortunately, the fact that the catalogue for the show will not appear until April 15--ten days after the exhibition will be disassembled--will make this difficult...