Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time that messes up both J.W. and the movie. Robertson trots out the usual herd of metaphors for contemporary alienation. When J.W. facetiously gives his address as " 1313 Luck Road," it comes out sounding smug and pompous because the rest of the film deals too literally in such symbolic shorthand, as in the goring episode...
...cast is singularly strident. As a pompous Middle European intellectual, Kenneth Mars mugs and drools in a manner that Jerry Lewis might find excessive. Madeline Kahn, who plays O'Neal's officious fianceé, rolls over her part like one of Patton's tanks. Liam Dunn is fitfully funny as a demented judge, but he too finally succumbs to the prevailing hysteria...
...uneven, scurrying unpredictably from brilliance to pathos. Some of his lines carry a sublime irony, as in the death speech of Spotted Tail, the young Indian played articulately by Fletcher Word. Bill Fuller's comic Russian Grand Duke Alexis is moved to kill a Cherokee by Bill's pompous and flatulent boasting of his slaughters of the tribe, and shoots the first Indian who comes in sight. Spotted Tail falls dead, and then rises to address the audience...
...story illustrates one of the most popular themes in current women's fiction-the way men use women. Customarily the man is seen as pompous, competent in a petty way and callous. Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, a shrewd and graceful comedy, shows an ambitious lawyer husband telephoning orders to his shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits...
...cake banter of his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to contemporary New York City, where he unleashes a quartet of schlemiel heist men (Robert Redford, George Segal, Ron Leibman, Paul Sand). Their task is to lift a gem called the Sahara stone and turn it over to the pompous African diplomat (Moses Gunn) who contracted for the job. They go to a lot of elaborate trouble to break into places. The gimmick is that the stone is never where it is supposed...