Word: slobs
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...nothing else does. Mother Tierney cannot understand Brendan's wife, and is shocked by the paganism of his household; she baptizes the children in the bathroom. The wife resents everything-Mother Tierney, the novel, her job-and gets even by having an affair with the sort of slob whose pants do not have cuffs...
...cleverness that he forgets to shave or wash. He is a grind and a recluse; he rots in Widener. The second is the companion of wine, women, and money. He talks it over in the Club in his oval-shaped Brooks Brothers suit. The third is the anti-intellectual slob--the animal. He grunts and sweats in Briggs Cage...
...overdone of late, and Herb Gardner's first play almost does it again. Everyone knows that the Organization Men are bad, and the real nutty guys who do what's natural are good. Murray Burns, if handled any less imaginatively, would be just another poor-but-happy-go-lucky slob...
Sandro is discounted by Antonioni's contempt; Anna disappears; Antonioni never gives much attention to either the featherbrained Julia or the calm Patrizia. Only Claudia is left. And because she alone remains at the end of the film, the audience must wonder if the story is only that the slob has caught another chick. In the despairing La Dolce Vita, this would be the message. But the distinctive characteristic of L'Avventura is that things are not the same at the end as they were in the beginning. Claudia has changed, as has Anna (if she lives), as has Julia...
Exit Beckett. Enter Fannie Hurst, at her gurgliest, to provide a happy ending: the slob, who is really Prince Charming in disguise, wakes the spellbound heroine with the magic of his love, and they live happily ever after-in that dingy little basement apartment...