Word: lumpishly
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...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...
...Andre Cayatte (Tomorrow Is My Turn) has derived a lumpish film from it. Love Story would appear to be another inspiration. The lovers in To Die of Love smooch, swoon and suffer with a fervor that would bring a blush of recognition to Jenny Cavilleri's wan cheek...
...Communists who jostle Marcello in the last scene are intended to suggest "the wave of the future." But that symbol, juxtaposed with the homosexuality episode, creates confusion where there should be revelation, and will leave audiences more or less where it leaves Marcello: nowhere. There is some other rather lumpish and facile symbolism throughout the film that Bertolucci's virtuosity can only partially disguise...
...little old roll in de hay." She begins a passionate "sex thing" with a surly, sarcastic, sadistic writer who taunts her and lusts after her with equal ferocity. After one such session, when the writer (Frank Langella) has roughed her up pretty badly, Tina screeches the kind of lumpish epiphany so typical of Mrs. Perry's scripts: "You're sick! Sick! You have to put on that big virile act because you're really a fag." She returns to Jonathan who humbles himself before her, and there is a hint of -as Mrs. Worth might...
Prominent among the innumerable faults of this lumpish production is some of the most embarrassing acting of the year. Pleasence and, surprisingly, Brynner are both amusing, but Danny Kaye performs as if he were addressing a fund-raising rally for UNICEF. As for Katharine Hepburn, she has long since shrouded herself in her mannerisms. If anyone parodied her as outrageously as she parodies herself, she could easily sue for libel...