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And who's pompous?
The publication of two new books about former editor William Shawn has inspired another round of pompous elegies for the grand old New Yorker .)
Resentment is narrated, like Another City , by a grumpy writer who lives at the Chateau Marmont hotel; at the same time, Dunne himself appears as a character, as a columnist-novelist named Fawbus Kennedy who is variously called "the kind of nothing this culture has been moving toward for decades," a "third-rate middlebrow Depends ad," and a "pompous mediocrity of a type unprecedented and decidedly unwelcome in this kind of grave proceeding."
Imagine Harpo Marx giving the hot foot to a pompous official, who takes out a machine gun and blows him away: That's how cheap Benigni's hash of farce and tragedy is.
The other half of Washington finds the idea of Wise-Men-to-the-rescue pompous, patronizing, and undemocratic.
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