Word: shmuckness
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...those of us not brain-dead know that the donations would be anonymous if this were true. These contributions are offered by a rich person in a feeble effort to combat mortality--to find security in the knowledge that for hundreds of years people will remember him, Ichabod T. Shmuck, every time they write a return address from "Ichabod T. Shmuck Hall...
This goes double for the overheated, young-buck-turned-shmuck performance that mars virtually every scene in which Jack Stehlin appears (in the role of the murdered Alonzo's brother). The show's only virtuoso acting comes from John Bottoms as the tragic villain De Flores. As an impoverished nobleman in the Vermandero household, De Flores is the instrument of Beatrice-Joanna's downfall, and he oozes evil. Fine-tuned to gruesome perfection by Bottoms (here of the shiny bald pate and knock-kneed posture), De Flores is a cross between Igor and Iago, first fawning on Beatrice-Joanna, then...
...time there were eight parakeets living on that rod, dripping like candles in old Italian restaurants. After a while it changed the whole fabric of the curtains. The birds were living on the rod, on my head, on my shoulder. I'd find a name I'd like -- say, Shmuck -- and just give the other birds sequel names: Shmuck II, Shmuck III. No imagination. At one time there were four Shmucks in the room. We had dogs, too. Except for a period of six years or so after my father brought a dog home and the dog snarled...
...drink your oil you shmuck, we'll eat our heads of wheat...
...self-image is a familiar and obnoxious one: cocky, fool-hardy American punk bopping around the Mideast with his girl and his stash. Played by Brad Davis in his flashy feature film debut, Billy comes off as a hopeless amateur in the contraband business, the kind of sunglassed shmuck who chews gum and smokes a Winston at the same time while a suspicious customs agent checks his bags. Naturally, Billy does not read the papers; otherwise he would have known about the tight security checks at Istanbul airport caused by a rash of hijackings and terrorist bombings in the summer...