Word: pompousity
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...Pompous wannabe movie critics like myself always write about how bad summer movies are, but let me just remind you how wretched this summer was in particular by recapping some of the bigger hits...
...each year by Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter). To allay the villagers' fears that their supersize tomatoes and zucchini may be ravaged by rabbits, Wallace invents a gizmo that captures the critters without hurting them--much to the disapproval of Lady T.'s slimy suitor, Victor Quartermaine (a perfectly pompous Ralph Fiennes), who would rather blast the bunnies to bits. Soon the locals have a larger, more vicious threat: the mysterious, vegemaniacal Were-Rabbit...
...18th century New York, crises never seemed far around the corner. Discontent slaves revolted with guns and knives in 1712, killing nine whites. Then the 1730s saw a sharp challenge to the overbearing and pompous governor, William Cosby, who was the leader of the so-called Court Party. White intellectuals revolted with words, and formed the opposition Country Party. The printer John Peter Zenger’s acquittal of seditious libel in 1735 rocked Cosby and encouraged the governor’s opponents. After Cosby died, his critics denied the authority of the lieutenant governor and formed a shadow government...
...friend, I have to say that the whole setup seems awfully familiar. I mean, back at WJM in Minneapolis we had pompous Ted Baxter; now you've got pompous Ed LaSalle (John Astin), the womanizing theater critic. At least Ted was a comic type--the featherbrained anchorman--that everybody could recognize. This LaSalle fellow doesn't make sense. He comes on as a Broadway blusterer, yet claims he never goes to "commercial pap" like Cats and Dreamgirls. Then what's he doing writing for a blue-collar tabloid? Your other co-workers are more credible. Your boss (James Farentino) seems...
...title is pompous and a bit puzzling. But when hearings begin Tuesday on the proposed Integrity in Post Employment Act of 1986, there should be little mystery about its true target. The legislation, drafted by South Carolina Republican Senator Strom Thurmond, would bar key federal officeholders from ever lobbying for foreign governments or corporations. It would apply retroactively to anyone who had once served in a Cabinet or sub-Cabinet job, or in one of the 25 top posts on the White House staff. Such as . . . oh, Michael Deaver, for example...