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...assume a straighter posture in an identical chair when protesting outrageous alimony demands. Waiting for the P.T.A. meeting to begin, he sprawls. Waiting for the loan officer to finish a phone call, he assumes the well-known suppliant's crouch, a kind of sidesaddle, lock-kneed pose designed to convey simultaneously fiscal responsibility and abject need...
...satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
Pigeon-Toed & Knock-Kneed. Bob Hayes's mother remembers that he was a late walker and the slowest dishwasher in the family. Jake Gaither, Florida A. & M.'s football coach, recalls the first time he saw Hayes run: "I had to smile a little. He was pigeon-toed and knock-kneed, and he sort of wobbled. 'Jake,' they told me, 'you've got to teach that boy how to run.' But then I saw how he left those defensive backs behind, and I said, 'Let him alone...
Stavros has a fezfull of motives for leaving his home. His people, the Greeks, live in terror and humiliation under despotic Turkish rule. When his weak-kneed father decides to move the family to Constantinople, where there is less danger, Stavros has already resolved to quit Turkey and travel to the United States. As the eldest son, he is sent on ahead to invest the household treasures in the capital. And the hardships begin. The boy kills a shiftless Turk who has robbed him, loses a second cache in a brothel, and nearly dies in a raided meeting of revolutionaries...
...BELLS OF SHOREDITCH, by James Kennaway. An acid satire of a weak-kneed young Socialist who is down to his last slogans until his wife goads him into trying to copy the big boss, revealing within him a rich vein of pure capitalist...