Word: oafish
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...assumption that they need a certain anonymity as agents, the FBI has permitted no pictures of the pair. However, an FBI spokesman with oafish gallantry and an unintended pun insists, "They're not pigs, by any means...
Moral of Compassion. The tie that binds also chafes. Since Harry does the cooking and the mending, he sometimes sulks like a put-upon housewife. Charlie is the male partner, as it were, and with a certain oafish, masculine crudity he does things like cut his toenails in bed. But his basic role is to nag at Harry and call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended...
...perfunctory; he may well have been bored. Kim Novak, one of his seedy band, wearily remarks of herself at the outset: "Sister Lyda's ass is draggin." Indeed, she bestirs herself only for the strategic seduction of Clint Walker, who has no trouble at all playing an oafish, one-dimensional Ranger. Despite The Great Bank Robbery's pretentious effort, the genuinely amusing western remains an elusive specimen...
...Benedict Arnold University, located somewhere east of the Rockies, where some of the freshmen can hardly write their names in the dust with a stick, and where Scrabble, wife-swapping and Red-baiting are the faculty pursuits. With its Disneyland-cum-Mies architecture, a preposterous president, freakish faculty, oafish student body and a Neanderthal athletic program (the coach, accused of bribery, is demoted to full professor), Benedict Arnold seems to offer Walker an escape from the inconsequence and stuffiness of his existence. By rights, he should feel snootily superior to the joint, pouch his fee, and go back to Nottingham...
...more deceitful. When he rescues Natalie from the abortionist, for instance, Steve can think of nothing more clever than "C'mon getcher clothes on" which he reiterates six or seven times. But the characters, from Natalie's mother (who might be an ad for La Rosa spaghetti) to her oafish suitor (a sort of diminutive Chef Boyardee), are all pretty familiar...