Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Percy is handling himself badly in Moscow," said one member of the Reagan transition team. "His pompous manner is well understood...
Despite their similarities, however, each of the shows has a distinct personality. Today is like a morning newspaper, solid, informative but sometimes pompous and solemn. The set, so old now that it is encrusted with dust, is dominated by an official-looking horseshoe-shaped desk, behind which are chairs for the staff and a giant backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Brokaw, 40, has something of the manner of a friendly corporate lawyer. The prim and manicured Pauley, 30, could easily be his law school trainee, so efficient does she seem. Fortunately, what they lack in sparkle is made...
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben--Richard Strauss' self-portrait, "A Hero's Life," is perfect music for Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia, lush to over-ripe, revealing to the point of embarrassment. Strauss the Pompous might be laughable but for his true musical genius, sumptuously recorded here...
McCue is a passable Vanya, but he proves unwilling or incapable of ditching his distracting mannerisms. In the first two acts he consistently plays for laughs, a crotchety jokester or ludicrous lover, jerking his body back from the waist and vocalizing like a pompous burgermeister with an occasional British falsetto. This great and silly character--simple to the point of transparency--becomes so cluttered as to be almost impenetrable. The rest of his performance is sloppy but sometimes affecting. The first night I saw the show McCue hit some surprising notes of anguish in the third...
...issues have been obscured in the race by mud as thick as a Los Angeles slide. Dornan is an expert slinger; he has called Peck "a sick, pompous little ass" who is a "Daddy's boy looking for something to do." Early in the campaign, Dornan charged that Peck in 1978 accepted an illegal campaign contribution from an Alabama businessman who is in federal prison for fraud. The charge backfired: the businessman did try to contribute $13,000, but Peck eventually returned the checks. Peck faults Dornan for his membership, now terminated, on the advisory board of the right...