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...with an almost litigious inability to communicate his desires to the women he finds attractive, the oh-so-sad dilemma of a voluptuous female law student who can not escape her retinue of pining creeps, and the pitiful machinations of Irving deWurmme, a fat and dirty slob who drools over the opposite sex from behind his text books...

Author: By Siddharthu Mazumdar, | Title: Legal Complications | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Noon Unpack and arrange belongings in your clothes in drawers and shut them before any parent can make a comment about what a nice collection of t-shirts you have or wonder aloud how their kid is ever going to live with a slob. Carefully extract the recommended summer reading from your suitcase and place the tomes on your shelf, affording them a prominent position. Now is the moment of truth: do you lie, telling your roommate you actually read all those books, or are you honest, saying you wouldn't be caught dead reading anything you don't absolutely...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

...posthumous exuberant comic novel, laughter prevails. Ignatius J. Reilly, 30, is a monumental slob whose mere appearance on the streets of New Orleans makes policemen itch to arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rumblings | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...Goddam noise," says Sorrowful, and grudgingly gives her some milk. This is not really believable; nobody is that stingy, and nobody is slob enough to get corn flakes out of the box, as Matthau does, by sticking his paw in and grabbing a handful. It's just an actor doing a bit, and we are perfectly willing to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mark IV | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only for touting a 70? National Bureau of Standards publication called "Making the Most of Your Energy Dollars in Home Heating & Cooling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Reads to Riches | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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