Word: loutish
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Tobias Wolff's subtle, vivid memoir, This Boy's Life, was converted into a one-track movie centered on the loutish, vicious behavior of Wolff's stepfather, played by Robert De Niro. Fried Green Tomatoes, released in 1991, was a masterpiece of artfully soft-edged propaganda, a regular Birth of a Nation of antimale bias: almost all the male characters were brutes or fools or slobs except for a mute, guardian black giant, who was a sort of eunuch figure, and a sainted brother who died an awful death when young and innocent, and a little...
What then is shadow in Ted Kennedy? It is not only impossible to say but also presumptuous. A man with Kennedy's temperament and past may need a sort of unofficial self that he can plunge back into now and then -- a rowdy, loutish oblivion where he feels easy, where he takes a woozy vacation from being a Kennedy. It is said that a drunk stops growing emotionally at the age at which he began serious drinking. That would probably be the age then of the unofficial self...
...director of a documentary on the music. "It's about being rich and famous and getting laid." Nonetheless, metal has taken heat for a decade, with its electrified invitations to head banging and hell raising. Now other groups are taking the flak. Example: Guns N' Roses, the talented but loutish rockers whose album Appetite for Destruction has sold almost 9 million copies. Their song One in a Million says, "Police and niggers, that's right, get outta my way./ Don't need to buy none of your gold chains today . . ./ Immigrants and faggots, they make no sense to me./ They...
John Christopher Jones is the one bright point on this relentlessly dull cast. As Cloten, the loutish son of the queen, he is an indecisive, brutish, self-contradictory delight. He does not make the mistake of trying to seem pathetic but makes his unrequited love for Imogen appear merely amusing...
...film's admirable trick is to shift the balance without opting for heroes and villains. Kevin Dillon, as Lucy's boyfriend, lists toward the loutish, but he's no jerk. And Masterson's fine, grace-noted performance is like the film: full of wit, skepticism and hope for compromises that won't ruin lives. This is a serious comedy that locates wry smiles in everyone's burdens and opportunities. The tears come...