Word: boorish
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...COMEDY is the most banal of American art forms, and unfortunately one of the more popular. Why is anyone interested in Donna Reed's dinner parties or Archie Bunker's poker games? Perhaps because the genre exploits all the most offensive conventions about American families--men are henpecked and boorish, women are hysterical--and viewers get a chance to laugh at their spouses behind their backs...
What little is known of his true nature comes from a handful of his friends and associates. By their testimony, he is intelligent, warm, charming, compassionate, humorous and unpretentious, as well as undisciplined, boorish, gloomy, supercilious, cruel and downright bent. About the only thing everybody can agree on is that he is a prankster. He delights in disguising his voice in his frequent phone calls to friends, assuming such identities as a job applicant, a woman, or a doctor reporting a comically grotesque diagnosis of some third party. He is also devastatingly adept at mimicry, something he does not only...
...heroine is a reluctant frontierswoman of the 1880s named Catherine Crocker. At 35-a refreshingly ripe age for a heroine-Catherine is marooned in a Wyoming mining camp with her boorish husband. After one quarrel too many, she decides to flag a train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking...
...part, the antagonism reflects a conflict in styles. The elegant Egyptian President, whose tastes in tailoring run to Savile Row suits, finds the Russians crude and boorish. But there are substantive disagreements as well. Sadat's disillusionment grew after his visit to Moscow last February. There he discovered that the Kremlin was not prepared to deliver on all of his hefty requests for more arms. Sadat, moreover, resents playing the role of broker for Russian interests elsewhere in the Arab world. His trips to such vocally anti-Communist states as Libya and the Sudan, where he has recently tried...
...prisoners, he can climb out of the cave. With the dwarf women who took care of him on his back, he goes into the town to collect money by begging for supplies to dig the tunnel. The town is an exaggerated stereotype of a Hollywood Western town; boorish, fat old women in 1890's dresses, who ooh and aah as they watch two men kill each other; black slaves branded (before your very eyes, naturally), lynched, and accused of rape by lecherous women...