Word: bombastic
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Hairspray certainly looks terrific. Scenery designer David Rockwell goes for wit and color (prettiest in pink) rather than bombast. A forest of microphones and klieg lights sprouts from the ceiling; disembodied heads appear, Laugh-In style, inside big-haired pictures that wiggle back and forth. If this is eye candy, dish out more...
...with a soup?on of sexual decadence. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman had reaped a bonanza with the ghouly-gory-nudie-roughie "Blood Feast." (Friedman, who oddly gets no mention in "A clean BREAST!", was a mirror Meyer: an inspired huckster with a gift for literary bombast. His memoir "A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King" is a marvel of evocative high-comic writing. And stay tuned for the sequel!) So Meyer, deciding it was "time to bust out of the industrial film format," concocted a black-and-white Bible-bustin' tract called "Lorna...
Whether Bakri is closely linked to al-Qaeda or--as some think--is just a loudmouthed bombast, al Muhajiroun is real. Bakri claims his organization has offices in 21 countries, and it certainly has a presence in the U.S. Early in May, al Muhajiroun supporters held a demonstration to support Chechnya outside the Russian consulate in New York City. On May 12, the group held a meeting at New York City's Brooklyn College, complete with videos of alleged atrocities committed against Muslims worldwide. Fahad Hashmi, a Pakistani-American student, spoke at the meeting, praising the American Taliban, John Walker...
...songs, If the Good Lord's Willin' (and the Creeks Don't Rise), is adapted from his dad's old lyric sheets. The way Hank Jr. tries to generate excitement is also foursquare--he relies more on blazing guitar riffs than ingenious melodies. There's more bombast on 30 sec. of Almeria Club's final track, America Will Survive, than on the whole of his son's Lovesick, Broke and Driftin'. Almeria Club is mostly standard contemporary country, with the rock and pop influences that have become a given in that genre...
...accomplished antagonistically, as if they were attempting to show up one another (for the curious, Castrillo won). The spectacle was out of place for a night where the leader was being so inclusive. Negron also tangibly lacked a sense of subtlety. For the night, funk’s bombast was tempered by the subtlety and nuances of Latin music, but someone forgot to tell the drummer. Negron pounded his way through most pieces, with little regard for the subtle moods being created around...