Word: moping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with colonial furniture, plastic fruit, fluffy floral armchairs, commercial and authentic Indian crafts. The television forms the pulpit of the living room: children crowd around to absorb its technicolor wisdom. In the driveway is a small car, an old Honda Super Hawk; bicycles lie on the back lawn, dogs mope around the fear porch. Raymond Moore and his wife bake some bread in the kitchen. Mrs. Moore, looking fresh, models tight blue jeans and a printed t-shirt. A girl short-cuts through the back yard filled with dogs, wearing a "Smoke Colombian" t-shirt, a headdressed chief puckering...
...alfa mope, his Bellrope...
...comic turn or two, but their ministrations are futile. Forbes recklessly appends another act to the Cinderella saga in which the commoner is forbidden to marry the Prince. She is carried by coach from the kingdom, set up in a palace where she can do what she does best - mope. The Prince knuckles under to the pressures of his station, slouches toward the altar to take another bride. Fairy Godmothers are not large on unhappy endings, however, so there is no serious cause for concern. Even the audience gets a break. Nobody dances at the wedding...
Dawdle and Mope. Away from the hunt, they also stand and wait. And wait. The novel contains enough pregnant pauses to fuel a year of TV soaps: "considerable," "sizable," "baffled," "stupefied" waits. But then, there seems to be no reason to hurry. Tended by a small army of admiring blacks, the Mayfields and Kendals have nothing much to do except dawdle and mope. "I am 55 years old this month," says Forrest at one point. "Never say 'Time flies'; it has seemed like forever...
Connors may not mope much longer. "I think I've found the right girl," he says. "When things are right?which may be soon?we'll settle down." After calling off their nationally ballyhooed engagement last fall, Connors and Evert decided not to talk to each other for four months. "We needed to find out if we really wanted to be with each other," says Jimmy. "I wasn't very happy, and she wasn't very happy. Since we got back together, we're working things out a lot better. I guess we're much more honest." Chris seems...