Word: pompousity
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...vision is grander and warmer--as sweet as a child's growing love for a big ugly furry bear--right up to the marvelously satisfying final shot. In this film the real monsters are bad manners (represented by Steve Buscemi's nasty chameleon) and corporate myopia (James Coburn's pompous crab). The good guys are those who realize that laughter is stronger than fear. That's a message worth taking to heart these jittery days...
Nowhere was their universal appeal more apparent than under the roof of Avalon last week. After a ridiculously pompous opening fanfare, the duo got straight to business with a spine-tingling mix of their wildest, most floor-shaking anthems. The songs were intercut by intense live jams that consisted almost entirely of tweaked sirens and ultra-distorted basslines, the occasional cheeky sample (Eminem elicited a small cheer), and divine, slamming beats. Not stopping at mere sound, however, the show boasted a rotating cast of exotically clad vocalists and dancers whose exhortations to the crowd were at once embracing and confrontational...
...would be a long battle against inbred, Hollywood-fed macho traditions and the fallout from TMT, Too Much Testosterone. But even a partial victory, even the possibility of imagining that pompous old goat Henry Higgins inverting his sexist question, now that might really turn women on. More than any electrode...
It’s not too surprising, then, that Jamal must prove himself, on his own terms, in this hostile environment. F. Murray Abraham’s Professor Crawford provides Jamal with a suitably flat and pompous foil. Suspicious that Jamal’s talent for writing is illegitimate—“He’s a basketball player. From the Bronx”—Crawford endeavors to have him expelled. As Crawford’s role becomes prominent late in the film, Abraham dutifully slogs through a series of embarrassing scenes, trying to maintain some...
...being curated by Ralph Appelbaum, who worked on the planetarium as well as the distinguished U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Clinton is, not surprisingly, "one of the most attentive clients we've ever had," Polshek says. The President has decreed that the design be "elegant but not pompous." And yes, there will be some architectural allusion to that bridge to the 21st century...