Word: flaking
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...apartment, with an old stereo and a generous supply of Coors beer, nonplussed by the publicity. Soon the sportscasters' favorite line (crooned by the likes of Howard Cosell) implied that Fidrych had a few screws loose upstairs--that he was a bit of a flake, a nut, a loony...
...Marilynn Levy. Recalls Marilynn: "Sports? I didn't know from the Twins, and like a cocky little broad, I wasn't impressed, didn't want to be bothered. So I said, 'If Tony Curtis walks in, bring him over instead.' " Carew called her a flake. Hardly an auspicious beginning, but he walked her to her car and asked for her telephone number. For the first time in her life, Marilynn Levy gave a guy she had met in a bar her number. "He called me, and we started seeing each other. No big thing...
...workaholic society Harry Truman would have been a flake. Right in the middle of rebuilding the world after World War II, he used to insist on interludes with his neighbors from Independence, Mo., poker games on his yacht on the Potomac and hours of inexpert splashing around in the warm waters of Key West. He was a successful President...
...Gladieux, a flake from Notre Dame, made his mark with the Patriots a few years back with the way he used to hurl his body at the wedge set up by the kick return team. Gladieux didn't last long; he got his eggs scrambled a little too much from all of the wedges he busted...
...literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...