Word: slob
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...poor slob gets sent to stay with his parents' old buddies, a retired half-English, half-Indian general and his alkie wife, residents of a mostly deserted colonial outpost. The main activity there consists of drinking and watching the jungle reclaim the cottages. Naturally, this, uh, bucolic setting provides time for a lot of introspection, which is what just about everybody does. All of the characters involved get their chance to spin out brief but revealing vignettes about their various problems--sexual, social, existential. Here Alter really struts his stuff; the excellent vignettes display versatility that a young novelist...
...always carry my tunes wit me, huh-huh..." Bobby kept his eyes trained on the Warren Beatty ad, his shoulders hunched away from the bestial slob...
...school. Needless to say, her problem is hardly assuaged by a host of women with silver hair curlers and Frankie Avalon making his guest appearance as Teen Angel. Avalon tells Frenchy that she's "got the dream but not the drive. Who would want their hair done by a slob, only whores." Not only does this make Frenchy feel bad, but the audience is stupefied by this offensive piece of special effects work as well...
...most esteemed evangelist in America is a vicious, foulmouthed, whisky-swilling slob who carries on a flagrant liaison with a pea-brained wench. He treats his preacher son like dirt and shells out cash here and there to hush up his scandals. That's the protagonist of Miracle, a squalid novel by Dotson Rader (Random House...
Fortunately the author has a genuine gift for characterization. Grijpstra is something of a slob mismarried to another slob of grotesque dimension who stares at TV all day and wears innumerable pin curlers to bed. De Gier is a romantic who is too realistic to marry. He prefers the company of his flute and his neurotic Siamese cat, Oliver...