Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HCUA officials have totally bumbled what should have been a simple election procedure. Adding that administration confusion to their high-handed treatment of Eisenman and to their pompous and arbitrary handling of the questions raised by Faye Levine's candidacy, one can only wonder if the HCUA is capable of doing anything...
...Your cover story on Buddhism was at times hasty, flip, sarcastic, snide, sniping, pompous, preachy, and in bad taste...
Using these devices, Lennon mocks pompous politicians, eager brides, mawkish dog-lovers, anything. His sick humor is oten biting and percep- tive, and his rampant word juggling is clever...
...sons-pompous, bookish Blaine Shelby, 33, and happy-go-lucky 14-year-old Sam-tell the story in alternate chapters. Angelina Hughes, a beautiful hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a soldier and fools everyone but perspicacious Sam, who stumbles upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies...
...being produced by Four Star Television. Boyer is a co-owner of Four Star, along with David Niven. They are both in the series, which NBC describes as "a comedy-melodrama about a family of jet-set jewel thieves and con men who are masters of separating the pompous rich from their ill-gotten gains . . . played against a backdrop of Riviera beaches, palatial villas, beautiful women and green felt gaming tables...