Word: pompous
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...Rostand's 19th ; century kind of theater, which was melodramatic in construction and spectacular in style, and actually improved on its substance, since film could realistically show splendors that the stage could only suggest. This Cyrano, abustle with action, aflame with rhetoric and spiced with humorous contempt for pompous and hypocritical swells, reminds us of a lost movie genre that, paradoxically, the original Cyrano helped inspire...
WIOU (CBS, debuting Oct. 24, 10 p.m. EDT). Yet another network series about TV's favorite subject: itself. John Shea plays the news director of a struggling station, where a pompous anchorman (Harris Yulin) paws female reporters under the desk. Lou Grant would have furloughed them...
...Claus try to kill Sunny? At the end, Reversal of Fortune offers two scenarios, both suggesting that Claus abetted his wife's suicide attempt. But one can only speculate on the death-styles of the rich and famous. Besides, the film's Claus -- pompous and airy, proclaiming his love for his wife and mistresses when he is not telling sick jokes on himself -- is enough of a mystery for any one movie. "What I've seen of the rich," Alan snorts, "you can have them." Claus fairly purrs, "I do." This corrosive comedy of high manners has them down right...
...intellectual standards and rising liberalism at Dartmouth, the Review staked out a territory far to the right of most conservatives, both in rhetoric and ideology. They personally vilified professors that did not live up to their standards (while choosing to ignore the intellectual slovenliness of their faculty guru, the pompous Jeffrey Hart) and constantly attacked women, Blacks and gays...
...claim to be running a perfect newspaper. It is puzzling, therefore, that the Crimson has taken unto itself the liberty to play ombudsman for the Indy; there is daily evidence that their work at Plympton Street is far from complete. "Factual" or not, sarcastic criticism is arrogant and pompous. When such an accusation is left unsigned--as it was on Saturday--it is also an act of cowardice. The comic irony, of course, is that the issue addressed by the anonymous writer in this case relied upon the fact that Indy staffers Cornwell and Lattmann identified themselves as authors...