Word: slobbish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alfred Tetzlaff is the hero of West Germany's hottest new situation comedy. He is a first cousin to both All in the Family's Archie Bunker and his relative, Alf Garnett of the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Herr Tetzlaff is a slobbish, slipper-shod metalworker. Married to an addled blonde whom he calls "dumb cow," he has a jeans-wearing daughter and a liberal son-in-law. He deplores long hair, beards and miniskirts, surefire signs of Germany's moral decline. He also dislikes almost everybody, especially foreign laborers, Slavs (Russians...
...Murder, Inc. and the Brooklyn hood in Pocketful of Miracles). His career then settled into a series of forgettable Hollywood films (The Great Race, Castle Keep, Luv) and a sprinkling of Italian epics. A TV series in 1965, The Trials of O'Brien (in which he played a slobbish lawyer similar to Columbo), folded after one season...
...whole Western tradition of humane tolerance, now threatened by the twin fanaticisms of repression and revolution. At others, he is some kind of primordial natural force, a witness to agelong woe and fatality. At still others, when what he calls facticity catches up with him, Agathon is just a slobbish old lecher smelling of onions. In this guise he represents the irreducible, incorrigible lump of humanity that always jams up the bright theoretical machines continually being invented by one Lycurgus or another, and thus saves mankind from betterment...