Word: windbags
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...friend Cliff bounce and jump and wrestle with a disarmingly youthful abandon. Because the long speeches are unobtrusively broken up with movement, and because they are delivered brilliantly by Kenneth Haigh as Jimmy, there is never any suggestion that they are formal setpieces, or that Jimmy is a windbag. Mr. Haigh, who created the role in London and New York, is an emotional actor of considerable power, with an almost impish charm that takes just enough of the curse off Jimmy's bitcheries...
...heartiness. The push began three weeks ago, winds up this week as school starts. Says the station's Program Manager David Croninger: "We put on a saturation campaign much like an ad agency would schedule to sell cigarettes." Hard-selling its product, the station each day broadcast a windbag of "Hi, kids" spot announcements by such notables as White Sox Manager Al Lopez, Singer Tommy Sands and Inland Steel President Joseph Block. At a monster rally last week (17 cops and a turn-away crowd of 2,500 teeners), Deejay Howard Miller paraded an in-person menagerie of teen...
Your article on Howard Miller [April 29] failed to point out that most Chicagoans know him for what he really is - an insincere, bigoted, pompous windbag...
...Windbag Who Babbles. There is something odd about the man, Fletcher, a windbag who babbles about irrigating the Karroo with atomic power and establishing a world government on the lines of South Africa's present Nationalist regime. The man's wife is silent and bitter. But the pair beg the students to stay with them for a free holiday. Thus the boys come to sense the fear that lies under Fletcher's racial brag. The house is subtly menaced by a big old illiterate Kaffir, Joseph, who just hangs about. Man and wife are desperately afraid...
...time he is set to mastermind the election for governor of a drunken windbag named John Cromwell, Freesmith has developed into a full clinical picture of an icy-hearted opportunist in action. He figures that fear plus hate equals power. By manipulating the fear of poverty of California's "senior citizens" and exploiting general hatred of Communism, he hopes to become the real governor of California. In a not quite credible solution, his pal Hank removes the hard hand of Mike Freesmith from the public weal...