Word: slobs
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...computer apparently goofed, however, when it matched a Radcliffe freshman who thought she had asked for "sloba of the Adams House type" with "completely low-class, unintellectual, unmotivated, uninteresting gangsters." An Adams House slob that she got "just what she asked...
...forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie to play opposite Warren Beatty in a Greenwich Village comedy scene. After one look at young Chaplin's shoulder-length tresses, face-fuzz, tattered jeans...
...begin living an uproarious travesty of a bad marriage, an astutely characterized study in incompatability. Matthau is a gruff, irresponsible slob, a sort of cigar-chomping depilated bear who shambles around in his ill-kept cave. A Friday night poker-playing crony judges Matthau by a Rorschach test of his refrigerator: "I saw milk standing in there that wasn't even in the bottle." By contrast, Carney is a fuss-budgety fanatic of cleaning and cooking. The kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder...
After Long Day's Journey into Night and The Iceman Cometh, it is scarcely news that Jason Robards and O'Neill are incomparable stagemates, or that Robards possesses consummate skills. He shuns Ivy League gentility, and he has never pretended to be a T-shirted slob-esthete who fusses with the Meth od. He belongs to an older and solider breed, the man in actor's clothing. He does precisely what O'Neill always asked of himself, even in this lesser play-he lays his life on the lines...
...finds it, but then he finds so many other wonderful things to steal that the sight sobers him and he runs off to collect a more efficient colleague (Ann Sothern). Poor slob, he also collects three predatory teenagers, two boys and a girl, who tail him back to the mansion, snatch his boodle, conk him cold and, finding nothing better to do, kill...