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Word: slobs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately the author has a genuine gift for characterization. Grijpstra is something of a slob mismarried to another slob of grotesque dimension who stares at TV all day and wears innumerable pin curlers to bed. De Gier is a romantic who is too realistic to marry. He prefers the company of his flute and his neurotic Siamese cat, Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zen Cops | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...provide reaction to a story, put it in perspective. Anchor people are concerned with peer acceptance. They find it degrading to educate people because they think they are talking to the intelligentsia. We had a good interview with Sadat, but nobody explained when he mentioned Gaddafi. Not only the slob on the street but the average educated people who go to '21' or whatever wonder who or what a Gaddafi is. It sounds like a disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Revving Up the Television News | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...Massachusetts charge that their vehicles will become infested with vermin if they are forced to carry dirty bottles back to recycling centers. Others warn that the bottle proposals will cost the average consumer $100 a year and will not limit littering. Says one anti-bottle bill campaigner: "A slob is still a slob, and a 5?or 10? deposit won't deter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Beer Can Ballots | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...that it's time for an aristocratic comeuppance. To disinfect the noxious influence of democracy and such repellant notions as equality, invariably supported by the wrong-side-of-the-tracks populace, he prescribes large doses of snobbery, social climbing and downright opportunism. Though you yourself may be an uncultured slob, you need only follow these rules to eliminate any obstacle blocking your successful rise in society...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: Making It | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

Even at the best of times the marriage was shaky. Gould, naturally, is a beer-guzzling, girl-chasing, hard-betting slob, and rich into the bargain. Keaton is bright, hung up, a little tentative about sex, a maniac about keeping the house in order. Once, Gould claims, he got up to go to the bathroom at night and came back to find that she had made the bed. The movie is similarly witless throughout. There are many attempted jokes about marriage counselors, institutes for sexual behavior and breasts. Norman

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Murder by Contract | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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