Word: loutish
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They offer it as a series of melodramatic cliches, seen strictly in terms of black (noble, long-suffering, righteous) and white (sadistic, loutish, bigoted). Any shred of evidence damaging to Jackson - and there is a good deal - is conveniently omitted...
...then as the head of her own small school. But her temperament, says Biographer Tomalin, "was geared to drama, violent emotion and struggle" without nuance, irony or humor. She was a person who had to dominate people. An early victory was persuading her sister to run away from her loutish husband and baby. Where Wollstonecraft's confused sense of her own sexuality was concerned, she was as ambivalent and anguished a victim as ever slit her wrists in a Joyce Carol Gates story...
...film progresses, Lieut. Minderbinder descends from mess-hall hustler to full-time racketeer. In a crude and overdrawn caricature, the loutish blond fly-boy suddenly becomes a Hitlerian symbol who bombs American bases in a deal with the Germans and sells stocks in the war because it is good business. Here Nichols?like Heller?cannot let hell enough alone, and Engine Charlie's oft-quoted G.M. dictum is paraphrased "What's good enough for M-M Enterprises is good...
...were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...
...approval the House gave the rat-control bill is any indication, however, both model cities and rent supplements are still in serious trouble; the House may simply refuse to split the difference with the more generous Senate, as is the usual custom. Deeply embarrassed by editorial reaction to the loutish ribaldry that accompanied the vote against the rat bill in July, some Republicans realized that they had bought themselves a huge political liability-who wants to be for rats and against children?-and welcomed a recount. But there is little indication that the House has, in fact, changed its mind...