Word: slobbing
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...Every once in a while I have anal days. I make 'to do' lists. I can only be around chaos for so long," says Witt. "On that day I'll accomplish 10 times more [than usual]. Ninety percent of the time, I'm a slob...
...they have is school. That's why they get so mad when it's boring and feel so bad if they fail. I have my work; I know how to talk to adults and how to make a decision. Acting has spared me from being a regular everyday kid slob. I used to think of it as just a job, but now it's my whole life, it's all I want...
...them." Weihl, who endured a 14-month separation in the late '80s when Gary was sent to South Korea, also knows the pitfalls of overidolizing the absent loved one: "He may have sounded like Cary Grant in his letters," she says, "but back home he can still be a slob." Charles Figley, a family therapist in Tallahassee, warns that spouses may compete for sympathy, a phenomenon he calls I-had-it-worse-itis...
This year, the Valentine's Day Ball has reached out to the pitiful slob community: "I hate Valentine's Day! I never get a date!" the posters blare. So come to the Ball! No date required! Losers welcome...
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...