Word: oafishness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Macao's casinos to the terror of Turkish prisons. "I am a thief," he tells his brother while priming him for the trade, but Sobhrai doesn't do himself justice. Accompanied by two or three of his gang--a strange Pakestanian named Ajay, a marvelous Melanesian named May, an oafish Belgian named Hugey and a 30-year-old Canadian farmer's daughter who throws away her sedate life for the promises of a man she met once in Bangkok--he roams the Asian continent, Sobhraj is more than a simple drug and rob man; he is a conman, hustler...
...somewhat amateurish mess and the characters are made of plywood, Truscott's book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...
Elders in Congress and the Cabinet delight in deriding him as the symbol of what ails the Carter Administration. Gossip columnists depict him as oafish, lecherous or both. His marriage has ended in divorce. Yet, having absorbed enough torpedoes to sink the most buoyant of careers, Hamilton Jordan has done more than merely stay afloat as Jimmy Carter's most trusted aide. He has expanded his range in both administrative and policy matters and is now even scrubbing up his image. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports...
...upper crust weekend at a country estate is undeniable. And yet Renoir also manages to pay tribute to loneliness, love and the more harmless foibles of servants and bourgeois along the way. Added to priceless observations, this film treats us to the acting talents of Renoir himself, as the oafish, big-spirited Octave, who in the name of civility and social convention must see his true and secret love unrequited. See this masterpiece, again--and if you've already done that once more...
...first place. Until the balance of dominance has been completely redressed (and given the intransigence of the Harvard male that will be ages hence) men are in fact committing an act of "forceful penetration" whenever they wilfully barge in where women are discussing their own delicate, personal affairs. Oafish Harvard males need not apply in this or any similar colloquy where women are privately formulating the structure of reality...