Word: slobbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...severely functional, ever-scrubbing wife, a discontented son who is obviously a round peg in a square hole, and a free-form dachshund. On the other side, Tati ranges the proponents of the casual life: Hulot himself, an awesomely inefficient employee of the department of sanitation, a big fat slob who sells vegetables from the back of a prehistoric delivery truck, a sneaky old female janitor and her moronic daughter, several sinister schoolboys, several drunks, an overstimulated canary and any number of mangy mutts...
...proper word for Brando: "It is a misunderstood term and is used as a demeaning handle." Even if it is demeaning, one inhabitant of The Place-a badly beat San Francisco joint -announced last week that it is too good for Marlon. "The beats think Brando's a slob," he cried. Not so, retorted a denizen of the Co-Existence Bagel Shop. "He comes up here and pals on weekends. Makes the parties. He represents us in regions where we can't go. We're in revolt against modern society, and Brando fights our fight...
...your story [Sept. 15] on Quiz Contestant Herbert Stempel's accusations and Producer Dan Enright's defense of Twenty One: what really cooks me is the sort of slob who would squeal on Santa after taking a bagful of presents...
While Novelist Donleavy owes his Blooming manner to Joyce (and some of his fertilizer to Spillane), his hero's bad manners borrow something from the Angry Young Men, those moral slummers who came to scoff and remained to stay. Like the suffering wife of the slob-hero of John Osborne's eponymous Look Back in Anger, Dangerfield's masochistically martyred Marion is from the top people, and like that hero, Dangerfield snarls and yaps like a dog in a bear...
...have made the middleweight crown. But another thing this book offers, apart from a reasonably, effective story, is wonderful examples of tough prose. One minor character is wondering about what happened to another character named Angelo. "Twenty to life," replies another character named Frankie. "He killed some poor slob run a candy store. They shoulda juiced him, but they give him twenty to life. Just a hood." The Professional, in short, is a classic example of the Heming-wayward conviction that small words must be used to denote big things...