Word: lumpishly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film by Felix, an unpretentiously bohemian artist, recognizing in his cousin Gertrude a fellow spirit struggling to burst free. The couple, played with lively grace by Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn, provide the movie with its most beguiling passages, and their story, his winning her away from the lumpish minister her family intends her to marry, gives it its strong est narrative pulse as well...
Apparently neither Stallone nor anyone else who worked on this picture could bear to part with the lumpish likability that all tried so hard to establish at the beginning. In the end they sacrifice everything-insight, morality, a dramatic arc-to preserve intact their star's only known quality, best described as a sort of vulgar affability...
...knockabout mockery of a cherished notion: that just to go on drawing breath is worth any sacrifice, a goal beyond any scruple. This is certainly an idea to which Pasqualino Frafuso clings with all the fervor in his Neapolitan soul. Nicknamed "Seven Beauties," in ironic allusion to his seven lumpish sisters, Pasqualino struts and flirts for all the women in Naples and looks for "respect" from the local...
...Loretta (Elizabeth Ashley), even while leching after the daughter of the hockey-team owner (Dayle Haddon) and making up to a raucous number who works in the bowling alley over in the next town. Implausibly, Dillon has enough energy left over from these various pursuits to carouse with his lumpish buddy Pov (John Beck) and play a fierce, albeit mediocre, game of hockey. As if to establish an affinity with his namesake, the town marshal of Dodge City, Dillon likes to don Western duds and pop off a few rounds at tar get practice. In Delisle he is a novelty...
...time he was nine Ruth proved too wild for his family or regular schools to handle. He was packed off to St. Mary's Industrial School, a combination orphanage and reformatory. That incarceration proved a break for baseball. At St. Mary's, the large and lumpish Ruth caught the eye of Brother Matthias, an equally huge Xaverian Brother who taught him to play every position. By the time Ruth signed out of the school at 20 to join the Orioles, his skills as both a pitcher and hitter were well up to major-league standards...