Word: slob
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salzman is skilled at using his meandering tale to comment on such varied ; matters as the Cultural Revolution, the Hong Kong drug trade, American amusement parks and the idiocies of slob art in West Coast galleries. But the subjects -- the earnest seeker and his wizardly mentor, an old dormant civilization and a young bombastic one -- are still stereotypes, no matter how lovingly drawn...
...film is determined to be about something less interesting than sexual combustion. Max is a neat freak, Nora a slob, so for a reel they play Oscar and Felix. She has no friends, his are nudgy -- this movie hates middle- class Jews a lot. Then the lovers must break up and make up, and the ho boy! becomes ho hum. White Palace settles into stolid ordinariness, after flirting with being a handsome essay on the grandeur of reciprocal lust...
...desperate attempts at suicide by a deranged housewife, brilliantly played by Jennifer Wiltsie, that are cheerily misunderstood by a passel of busybody "friends." Body Language posits a scientific mishap that leads to a body swap between two women, an ascetic fitness fanatic over whom men drool and a hedonistic slob whom men mock and abuse. It could be a feminist diatribe, but Ayckbourn never lets dialectic overwhelm compassion...
...flocking to emergency rooms are working people whose employers are no longer able or willing to provide insurance. "The 9-to-5 executive with benefits can take time off to see his doctor," says Dr. Keith T. Sivertson, director of the Johns Hopkins emergency department in Baltimore. "The poor slob mopping the floor until 4 a.m. may be sick after work, yet has to be ready to go back on the job the next day because if he doesn't work he doesn't get paid. Where does he get a doctor at 4 a.m.?" For many people the answer...
...eternity. During this time, the pitcher rubs the ball, the batter adjusts his jock, the manager spits tobacco on his shoes, the batboy sprints across the field for no apparent reason, the owner sells a racetrack, the designated hitter does a line of coke, the fat slob in the fourth row spills his beer, the usher sells a We're Number One felt finger, the mascot kisses a bikini-clad fan, the general manager exiles a third baseman to Cleveland for a player to be named later, the organist plays a march, the crowd bellows "Charge," an Eastern European government...