Word: slobbing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Slob. The realization that the public could go for an actor who was neither beautiful nor dumb shook Hollywood hard. Brando himself was even more of a shock. When he landed in town in 1950 to make The Men, Hollywood stood there with wide-open arms and a dazzling smile of welcome. But Brando, a sullen kid who went everywhere in blue jeans and a soiled T shirt, stubbornly resisted the town's professional charm. He snorted at the "funnies in satin Cadillacs" and told them precisely, in Miltonic periods of incomprehensible jive talk, what to do with their...
...Slobs & Simpletons. Last week in Las Vegas, a federal grand jury indicted Greenspun under the postal laws on charges of mailing ''matter of an indecent character, tending to incite murder or assassination." As evidence, the indictment quoted a Greenspun column of last January: "Senator Joe McCarthy has to come to a violent end. Huey Long's death will be serene and peaceful compared with the demise of the sadistic bum from Wisconsin. Live by the sword and you die by the sword. Destroy people and they in turn must destroy you. The chances are that McCarthy will...
Accompanying her are two other stars who were not so well known fourteen years ago, but whose performances were accurate prevues of the future. Broderick Crawford, as a fellow derelict, is a slob not so far removed from his role in All the king's Men. Unfortunately he has little to do but yell "gangway" while ushering Dietrich through crowds of unrestrained worshippers. And John Wayne, playing a wholesome young lieutenant, has not strayed much from the clean-cut but two-fisted type...
...teach somewhere." But in its attempt to "fill every cup, no matter how big or how small" with learning, the public schools have as yet failed to interest a great stratum of intelligent, but recalcitrant or lazy boys & girls. In what might be termed the era of the slob, young worshipers of the'television comic, the bookie and the comic-book monster can slip off into easy "general" courses and finish their school years with their minds practically ungrooved by thought...
...Soviet conciliatory gesture to Britain," as the Russians meant that it should be. But Alf and Clara had no concern for such talk. Clara called him from Moscow before she boarded the plane for freedom. "What do you think about moving in with a big, fat slob like me after seven years?" he asked. "It's a risk worth taking," said...