Word: slobbing
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...COUPLE is odd indeed, as an impulsive slob and his compulsively antiseptic pal set up an all-male household after their wives have left them. Spats and laughs are the daily routine...
...COUPLE is odd indeed, as an impulsive slob and his compulsively antiseptic pal set up an all-male household after their wives have left them. Spats and laughs are the daily routine...
...full-length portrait of Poet Thomas ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend FitzGibbon, Dylan was generous, kind, charming...
...found nothing more strange or more unattractive than the way in which American intellectuals take pleasure in reviling President Johnson. It is not simply that they object to his policies in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. It is a feeling of strong personal revulsion. 'He is a slob,' one of them said to me. Others say much the same...
...fierce but loses much of its bite toward the end when Director Morassi begins to moralize, using cinematic italics merely to emphasize that a poor honest slob is better off than a well-fixed heel. By the time Giulio has learned how to succeed, he is jobless, friendless, wifeless and miserably rich. It is left to Gassman to give the film lightness and laceration. He is the compleat climber, abristle with tight-smiling assurance and an air of faintly desperate camaraderie that makes Il Successo's trumped-up sociology seem like the whole truth...