Word: boor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...randy 64) with some of the same comic sexual energy that set readers goggling in Portnoy's Complaint. Sabbath is an ex-puppeteer whose present occupation is perfecting his scabrous personality. As he searches his disorderly past for meaning, largely without success, he is an equal-opportunity boor, richly offensive to women, men, Jews and Gentiles. Yet the result is a brilliantly written character, rampaging through a novel about facing death in a lonely...
...almost everything he did. The dominant player in baseball history, he transformed the way the game was played. Off the field, he could scarf down 18-egg omelets, chug-a-lug boilermakers (ice cubes and all) and, it has been claimed, make love seven times a night. A beloved boor, he also liked to show off a silver loving cup he won for placing first in a flatulence contest. Yet the Babe, product of a Baltimore reform school, came up short in one area. "My grandfather," says Ruth descendant Thomas Stevens, "always regretted that he didn't have the benefit...
Bush was initially distrustful of Gorbachev and critical of Ronald Reagan's "sentimental" attachment to him, but ended up by clinging irrationally to Gorbachev to the exclusion of his rival, Boris Yeltsin, whom he dismissed as an unruly boor. From the authors' account, Bush got no help at all from his top advisers Scowcroft and Robert Gates, who offered him unremittingly bad advice about what was happening in the Soviet Union. In Bush's first year, Scowcroft warned that in Gorbachev, the U.S. faced the "clever bear syndrome." Then two years later he portrayed Gorbachev as a Soviet Lincoln standing...
...sharp contradiction: the "brief shining moment" would give way to long, sordid aftermaths. Greek tragedy ("the curse of the Kennedys") would degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert to fat, sloppy baby...