Word: pompousity
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...Second Republic." The devaluation of the lira has been solved; it is possible to move in Rome--where in today's reality a second subway line has been in lentitudinous progress for over a decade. The sarcasm peels off in layers. The phrases of the book, the pompous, eulogistic style, ridicule bureaucratic rhetoric, while the content, in its flagrant incredibility, attacks the chaos of the existing system and simultaneously mocks the faith that a communist future would be better ordered. And Roman traffic, fluid? Anyone who has ever heard those cliched cracks about the traffic jams of Rome will...
...white" court sits in pompous assurance. An elegant queen, her simpering valet, a Missionary, a Judge, a Governor--the outlandishing-garbed whites are not only obvious symbols of white culture but obscene caricatures of the values each represents...
...people in Wedding aren't worrying about what they will look like in a family album. Relaxed, some are even able to smile. One particularly pompous couple included a mother in the second picture (one suspects the groom's mother, but it's hard to tell). The old lady's face wears an expectant smile, a touch senile, but beatified...
...aide: "Barsakov is right out of central casting. He's a heavy guy with bushy eyebrows. He offers tips on Soviet affairs, hoping to swap that dope for information." Another well-known operator is Igor Bubnov, an embassy counselor, who is described by a Senate staffer as "impossible-pompous and arrogant" and given to delivering long harangues in defense of his country. Other members of the Soviet squad: Anatoly I. Davydov, second secretary at the embassy; Victor F. Isakov, counselor; Vladimir A. Vikoulov, attache; Vadim Kuznetsov, an embassy official; Stanislov Kondrahov, an Izvestia reporter; Ikav Zavrazhnov and Alexander Kokorev...
...played in Mintz, sings with a lovely tenor, the rest of the cast demonstrate convincingly that they were chosen on the basis of their comic rather than musical talents. Exhibiting a superb sense of timing, Debra Smigel delivers the best performance of the night as Dr. Olson, the pompous social scientist who is helpless without her Ph.D. Jackie Osherow has some fine moments as the fruit-crazed Goneril, and Sarah McCluskey as Adeline pronounces some less than stellar lines with a cute Marilyn Monroe pout...