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Grandma trots about in tennis sneakers and a red baseball cap. Papa is a fat slob in unbuttoned pajamas, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in experimental theater. Mama reminisces over an early tussle for bohemian freedom in which she and Papa made love in the front row of the orchestra during a performance of Tannhäuser. Currently, she sleeps with a grinning Neanderthal manservant named Eddie, while Papa affects not to notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Value Vacuum | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Take Marcus Pendleton, the hero. He is, to be brutal about it, a fat slob. As Ustinov plays him, he slobbers, mumbles, stutters and swaggers. He is the kind of man who seems to have dandruff on his teeth. While the plot calls for Pendleton to pose as a computer expert and hitch up with an IBM-type operation to embezzle it out of millions, you know as soon as you see him that he'll be caught in the act. As a result, the fun is not in his attempted theft, but in what he does during his spare...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Hot Millions | 11/26/1968 | See Source »

Perhaps God is a slob...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

Would you say you are: a) The neatest person in your group of friends, b) about average, c) a real slob, but trying to improve, d) a real slob, and happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Computerized Companions | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...described him as a beetle-browed, bent-kneed apeman, though his cranium (at 1,600 cc.) was more capacious than that of a contemporary brain (averaging 1,450 cc.). Writers as disparate as Irving Crump (Og) and William Golding (The Inheritors) patronized him as a subhuman slob. Yet Homo Neanderthalensis, so named for the Central European valley in which his bones were discovered, survived for 2,000 generations and seems to have had the same sensitivities as his descendants. Writing in the monthly report of the French Prehistoric Society, Archaeologist Arlette Leroi-Gourhan described a cave on the Iraqi side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 21, 1968 | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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