Word: pompousity
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...salty abuse on Greek President Christos Sartzetakis. "The country was in a mess," mourns one of the show's comedians, "then Sartzetakis came along too. Is it possible to look at this fathead and not laugh?" Added to those insults were plenty of barbs deploring the President's allegedly pompous ways. What made the show SRO, however, was the fact that its two main actors had just been arrested, briefly jailed, then tried and acquitted on the basis of their performance. The charge: defamation of the presidency...
Soviet officials maintain that Gorbachev has made a few statements this year indicating that an INF agreement on its own might not be enough to warrant a summit. "A summit must not be just a ceremonial and pompous meeting," says Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's best-known Americanologist. "If we have only an agreement on INF and nothing else, people will not be sure what will happen next in arms control. Therefore perhaps something should be added, perhaps at the summit itself...
...beginning of the % campaign, if only because he is seen by many South Koreans as the only alternative to an unhappy status quo. But he is widely distrusted by leaders of the student movement, as are most politicians, and has been criticized in the past as being pompous. Kim's biggest potential problem is a split in the opposition forces, which are riddled with internal disagreements. Such disunity could allow Roh to win office with a plurality but not a majority...
...morals have hit a new low. Every part of society seems to have been tarnished. Scandals in religion, the military, corporations and, of course, the government. Drugs everywhere. But when was the last time a case of corruption or drug abuse was reported concerning the media? Keep up the pompous work...
Amidst the proud festivities at Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration last fall a group of graduate students, prompted by what they considered excessively pompous accolades, began to raise questions and doubts about the reality of the University's commitment to justice and academic freedom...