Word: oaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night as she is in bed, making love rather absentmindedly to her live husband, an oaf who performs his marital duties like a man trying to park a bread van, the lecherous specter reappears to watch. The pharmacist can't see him, but Dona Flor can. Her consternation is splendid. As she rolls her eyes at him in anger and embarrassment, he sits cross-legged atop a large wardrobe chest beating time with his hands on his naked thighs and laughing like a demon...
...Oaf...
Smith triumphed in ten of 12 bouts this year and probably is the Harvard grappler with the best chance to make it to Oklahoma. "There's no other way to put it," Lee said. "When Kip was a freshman, he was a clumsy oaf. He went 1-16 that first year. But he's worked like hell and improved and now he can beat practically everyone he faces, everyone but the really fine athletes...
...tantrums never quite conceal a fear of isolation that only Lennie's undemanding presence can assuage. James Earl Jones gives the most restrained and, paradoxically, the most forceful performance of his career as Lennie. Lolling, dribbling, crushing the life out of what he loves, Jones gives his burdened oaf a soul that more than compensates for his damaged mind...
...sensitivity of a clod. That's what we have in the White House now. An oaf and a clod-designate. His wife gets breast cancer and he comes out before the cameramen saying, "Wow, you guys aren't going to believe this..." Waving around family crises--it's both tacky and typical...