Word: slobbing
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...founder, Minneapolis Tribune Columnist Will Jones, explains: "The whole idea is that anyone who even ventures to smoke in the presence of another person is a slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...rented auto two months ago. He broke two ribs, contracted a mild case of pleurisy and put on a quick 15 Ibs. because of enforced inaction while recuperating. Friends describe him as inhibited by his Watergate-related publicity and irritated at no longer being able to play the colorful slob with conviction...
...Joseph Biden (D-Del.), who also addressed the conference, sharply disagreed with Kennedy. "The Democratic party can't win the coming elections on pointing the finger at Republicans for Watergate," he said. "Watergate has made the average slob suspicious of all politicians--Democrats, too--and we all have to prove our honesty if our institutions are to survive...
...Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (Norton; $8.95), written by Jay Haley, his longtime colleague and admirer. Haley shows how, out of hypnosis, Erickson has drawn a whole bag of ploys that persuade the patient to change himself rapidly. For example, a 250-lb. woman says she is "a plain, fat slob." Erickson takes over: "You are not a plain, fat, disgusting slob. You are the fattest, homeliest, most disgustingly horrible bucket of lard I have ever seen, and it is appalling to have to look at you." He continues insulting her-agreeing with her self-image and exaggerating it. The woman...
Inevitably, any actor who plays Kowalski has to cope with the memory of Marlon Brando in the original production. Brando not only exuded animal magnetism but also conveyed the inarticulate dignity of an animal. In the current production, James Farentino seems like a deliberate lowbrow, a slob who relishes being a slob. He comes across as meanspirited, and the scene in which he ravishes Blanche becomes a sordid rape instead of the elemental encounter implied by "We've had this date with each other from the beginning...