Word: oaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibility of that. For a roommate she draws a grim little trollop named Biscuit Besqueth, who talks baby talk to the oaf she is trying to railroad to the altar. Down by the pool, pale Fortune's batty advances are repelled with casual, callous disdain by the glistening sun worshipers. The author has mastered all the sledgehammer nuances of brutalizing speech: the deadening obscenities, the tag lines from talk shows, the dreary threats and boasts...
Fleming, a paunchy, coarse oaf played by Stephen Porter with obvious enjoyment, has camped by the line all night to make sure he beats everybody else. But it is Steve who always controls the situation. Not until he pads quietly into the room is the line defined. He slithers up to Fleming, stares wildly into his eyes, and informs him. "There's never been a real first place." Yet he stirs up the competition that follows as three others enter and try out their techniques for moving up in line...