Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1960s, when Cheever's first novel. The Wapshot Scandal, began winning awards, and when his reputation as a New Yorker short story staff writer seemed assured, he felt himself on top of the world. But success and celebrity took big toll on Cheever. His daughter claims he became "quite pompous about himself," and his drinking, which had always been heavy according to the socially acceptable fashion of New York literati, became increasingly so. And as Cheever became aware of his homosexuality, his embarrassment over the fact, and his fear of being discovered, further intensified his alcoholism: "I think...
...Susan remembers these heady times, which stretched through the 1960s: "His marriage was still exciting, his children were thriving, and we all made a lot of 'Will success spoil John Cheever?' jokes. Later, success and celebrity took a big toll on my father and he became quite pompous about himself...
...incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count the Republican out. For one thing, the influential Des Moines Register...
...directed by him, Gerry Bamman's Or gon is pompous, adenoidal, often petulantly childish; he reveres Tartuffe in or der to assert his moral superiority over a family that has grown fractious. Harris Yulin's Tartuffe is cold and cobra-like, vengeful and vain. He has a genuine element of fervor: he endures ritual flogging, dispenses alms, even appears to heal the halt and lame. But there is nothing inspirational in him and nothing ennobling in his impact. In the opening scenes, the actors appear in clownish whiteface and lurch like robots. The playing reaches its tenderest pitch...
...Austin, liberal, Democratic Austin, has been known to take its own potshots at pompous Big D. In an anticipatory and funny recent stroke, Texas Monthly, a fat, fast and loose Austin publication, gave its readers a look at what the pols and the press might get into when the Republicans gather next week. The magazine asserted that the convention, a minds-made-up affair, would be so surpriseless that the networks would pursue "The Other Dallas" (CBS), "The Hidden Dallas" (NBC) and "The Dallas the Republicans Don't Want You to See" (ABC). Poverty in the black sections...