Word: stuffier
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...ratty, black fleece and get dolled up—cleavage and all. If you are at all involved with the Crimson, Vicky’s smile enlivens your day whenever you enter 14 Plympton. First, because she is always here. And second, because she makes this oft-times stuffier-than-thou building, a more energetic, more fun and more passionate place...
...little operating system that could, is catching up with big siblings Windows and Macintosh. Last week high-tech heavyweights IBM and Dell announced new deals to sell Linux servers, and a host of other firms declared their support for Gnome, a Windows-like user interface for Linux. Unlike its stuffier competitors, Linux is free, and was developed collaboratively by an international community of hackers. Also unlike its competitors, it has a funky penguin as a mascot...
...admirers, French and White take the play for some comic turns of their own. As Algernon, French is all dimples and craftily employed myopia thanks to a character who is the essence of flippancy and casual verve. White, on the other hand, is forced into an uneasy and far stuffier portrayal, which makes his comedic tasks that much more difficult. Fortunately, both these actors have the requisite skills that enable them to extract some of the heartiest laughter of the entire production...
Although the three long essays were stuffier than the Kinsley days, they were very well-written and boasted the by-lines of such prominent literary figtures as V.S. Naipaul, John Updike '54, and Joseph Epstein. Epstein's article on the status of intellectuals in America. "The Rise of the Verbal Class," was a perfect example of the sharp-eyed, reflective, faintly self-indulgent prose which is the pride of the American middle-brow magazine...
...names of novelists and essayists who would be associated with El Boom. The term suggested the sudden discovery of Latin American talent rather than its slow growth. Says Gregory Rabassa, the distinguished translator of many Hispanic writers: "El Boom is not quite right. I would prefer something a little stuffier, like fomento." The word means a gradual development...