Word: turgidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never seen six hours rush by so fast," quipped Bob Hope. He had a point. Last week's Academy Award ceremonies took 21 hours, but they seemed twice as turgid and ten times as tasteless...
...marks, delivers lines from a play by Boris Vian. He delivers the lines well, and Leland Moss seems to have directed both his readings and actions with productive care and considerable sensitivity to the text. That text itself is a curious animal, at once original and derivative, vital and turgid, intellectually inspiriting, and deadly dull...
...primary campaign for the nomination, but several possibilities are sitting in the wings closely watching Rafferty's progress. They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...
...publishing world. A tedious example of quickie book-journalism, the book retells Jewish and Arab history from the Diaspora to 1967. Next, lengthy quotes from diplomatic and press dispatches trace the immediate prewar events at yawning length. The narrative of the war itself relies heavily on the turgid reports of field commanders, completely misses the sense of speed and surprise that made the Israeli victory possible, and even manages to make Moshe Dayan sound dull...
...fact, the book is a wildly turgid monologorrhea narrated by "D.J.," an 18-year-old Dallas scion, who spews obscenity like-like Norman Mailer...