Word: loafered
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...Mylene Demongeot, Rosanna Schiaffino) flee through the city in a frantic chase sequence, with nothing after them except howling boredom. They start a fight, steal some money, drive somewhere, wreck a bar, help some urchins steal an airplane wing for scrap, impulsively bleed for a blood bank. Eventually the loafer who winds up with the money bribes a headwaiter to open an expensive restaurant after quitting time, and grandly blows a casual acquaintance to a feast...
...Sagan's novel, Aimez-Vous Brahms. In it, Montand is required to pretend that he is a middle-aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never been in love before," says the bemused one. "Well...
...Boston-born wife Olga. 54, did knee bends too, but usually quit before she hit 200 because, she admits, "I get to giggling over how we must look." Vienna-born Dr. Raab could not care less how he looks so long as he is warding off what he calls "loafer's heart." Dr. Raab never rides in a car or elevator if he can avoid it, wears out six or seven pairs of sole leathers a year. Loafer's heart, he believes, is sapping modern man's strength...
Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
Arkansas, part delta and part mountain, part magnolia and part moonshine, where a horse is a "critter" and a heifer is a "cow brute," is given to such place names as Loafer's Glory, Bug Tussle, Hell for Sartain, Hog Scald, Nellie's Apron-and, perhaps most remote of them all, Greasy Creek in the Ozark forests of the northwest, where Orval Faubus was born 47 years ago in a candlelighted cabin...