Word: pompousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coleman's quest is for a personal knowledge of the working man but also for a simple, manual side to his own nature that he senses he may have lost. Perhaps Coleman could have made his book a testimonial to the "whole man," but fortunately he is not so pompous. In fact, one of the man's few virtues is his lack of condescension. The journal is full of simple declarations of the equalness of blue-collar and white-collar man, and the trusting plain-faced manner in which Coleman voices this truth makes one believe he is not mouthing...
...book as a photograph album, like Allert's extensive collection of pornography, the work of "an entire lifetime." The faded dreams and the still memories could be pictures to be perused quietly, a few at a time. At some point, though, an undercurrent of terror cuts into Allert's pompous and affected narration and turns sequence of vignettes into a novel. One reads this book as one experiences a long, waking nightmare...
...bawdy, but so charming that even Church-supported French nobility were seduced into laughter. Impresario Flaminio Scala concocted such a dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage and play themselves to the hilt...
...performance, Serpico is superficial, even heartless. The filmmakers have done no original investigations, and accept the reportage of Peter Maas as gospel. In their film, no other cop besides Serpico and an idealistic inspector are at all virtuous; Serpico's Ivy League associate, David Durk, is here preening and pompous, nothing like the dedicated, befuddled naif whom even Maas found sincere. And Lumet, Salt and Wexler never detail the reluctance of police higher-ups to listen to Serpico: New York City and police officials are cardboard figures of mishandled authority. Because the film's view of the force...
...York Times editorial of February 10, American readers were given a view of the British general election both pompous and, for The Times, hysterical. I quote...