Word: oaf
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Feiffer: I was really at a loss with Ford in the beginning. He's just a large, incompetent oaf. He has no malice and I don't think there was any deal with Nixon. Nixon never took seriously the signs that he would be impeached. Jerry was kind of impeachment insurance. "With a dope like Jerry in office, they'll never impeach me." He was always too cynical...
...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...
...night before last, as if he hasn't given us enough sublime moments in the last 15 years, the Louisville Lip served up his best stuff yet. Right, right, right, left, right into George Foreman's face. He could have hammered a few more chops into the lumbering oaf's slow-motion descending bulk. Instead, he stood off and let the fallen False One find his own center of gravity in the middle of the canvas...
...game suffers more than it ever did from its bloodied-oaf aficionados-the rough, vulgar, vandalistic, stupid, even murderous. British supporters have become notorious for their train ripping, window smashing, bovver booting, bottle fights. Recent British fan conduct in Holland led to Times editorials and high-level apologies on behalf of the whole British nation. Volatile Latins, though less ebullient than the stolid Anglo-Saxons, have been known to bite ears off referees...
Neilson's brother runs away from a farmer to whom he had been hired out, when the oaf beats him with a fence pole. Danjell is threatened for giving holy communion to ex-whores and drunkards. But this brief issue is even more deeply tied to prevalent cultural beliefs and social restrictions. Because the population is growing while the land remains divided in agrarian units under a feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move...