The view of him as an earnest, low-key figure, a Foxy Grandpa forever putting things over on more pretentious types while effectively running the city, was popular in the news columns of the "Times".
With that came fluorescent colors, Tom Tierney children as Frankenstein monsters, haphazardly placed press type lettering and (pretentious) eccentric song titles/lyrics.
I'm more the pretentious Drake type: "To dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas".
Jokes about pretentious poetic types are half-cocked – even Lowe's impassioned recital of a Tesco receipt seems more like a rough run-through for a gag – and the main comic premise, three women getting in a rivalrously undignified flutter over Cullen's amiably confused hunk, is about as un-Bechdel as it gets.
In doing so, she creates a blackly comic, Waugh-esque portrait of a newspaper called The Monitor that is peopled with hacks, has-beens, poseurs and some genuine reporters, rabidly ambitious youngsters and weary old-timers, pretentious literary types and gutter-minded twits.
In the pre-pandemic world, a stilted scene at a Hollywood dinner party full of philandering actors and pretentious L.A. types who call Prague "Praha" would make most anyone happy not to be invited to such affairs.
Search: Are all artist types pretentious?
"And they are, 90percentt of the time, the same three types: The Pretentious One, The Womanizer, and The Broody Loner".
THE CROWD It's heavy on fashion-industry types but hardly pretentious.
Here's a quote you won't see in a New York University admissions brochure: "The men and women at N.Y.U. are hot, but you'll find a lot of pretentious idiots and spacey Phoebe-types" (as in "Friends").
