Word: bumblers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happily reported that far from a boy, the French actress will play a voluptuous, Dorothy Lamour-type % character in what is supposed to be a madcap throwback to the Hope-Crosby Road classics--with Hoffman doing the wisecracking and Beatty as a sometimes inept sexual bumbler. This should require the best performing talents of both Beatty and Adjani, since the two are said to be real-life nearly-weds...
...seems, get the story straight. Who exactly is the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini a dictator or a bumbler...
...staged in 1935, the play exploded in the faces of complacent audiences who regarded the theater as a means of escape from the Depression. Odets overturned every theatrical bromide. In the crucible of the Berger apartment, Bessie the mother is a tyrannical presence; Myron the father is an ineffectual bumbler. Their heroine daughter Hennie becomes pregnant, foists her child off on an unsuspecting immigrant husband, then runs off with a small-time racketeer. The grandfather spouts Marxist shibboleths ("Abolish private property"). The youngest Berger, Ralph, obviously a mouthpiece for the author, yearns to break free from the suffocating love...
...Lessel came within a prayer of knocking a 355-ft. homer. The Arnold family went home happy: Father Leonard managed a grounder, Son Larry stroked a solid single, and twin Gary struck out Banks on a sidearm change-up. The most happy player may have been Soloway , the quintessential bumbler, who was awarded a plaque as Most Improved Player. He promptly an nounced his retirement from baseball. Until next year? -By Michael Demarest. Reported by Lee Griggs/ Scottsdale
Voters were also turned off by Clark's uncertain leadership and his image as a malaprop-spouting bumbler. "The media have done a number on me," complained Clark. "I frankly wasn't paying too much attention to it." By the time the campaign began, the country was awash with Joe Clark jokes, many of them crude and unfair. (Which of those two fellows in Santa Claus suits is Joe Clark? Answer: The one handing out Easter eggs.) The jokes were only part of the problem. Far more serious were Clark's inexperience in economics and foreign policy...