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...Obedient Father, which Farrar, Straus & Giroux will publish in June, is an Indian family novel that should appeal to anyone with a taste for red-blooded American realism and farce. His narrator, Ram Karan, a corrupt inspector for the New Delhi school system, is a self-pitying moral sloth whom Mark Twain would have recognized in a Missouri minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Subcontinentals | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Second. A community based on love--although sometimes pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, covetousness and sloth make a cameo or seven...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Why Our Class is Better Than Your Class | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...Watto growls and connives with the swagger of a con man who's not as smart as he thinks. Sebulba, Anakin's rival in the Podrace, walks on his hands and throttles rivals with his feet. "George said, 'Think of a spider crossed with an orangutan crossed with a sloth,'" recalls Rob Coleman, the film's animation director. Coleman would pester Lucas for backstory on obscure creatures like Sebulba, "but I've never been able to stump him. He marinates in this world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow! | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...eyes only to mock them with piercing stares. We refused to pack, do laundry or shower. One day, while wallowing in our own filth, we had a bit of an epiphany. We stank. Rather than climbing the tree of knowledge offered by our school, we followed the path of sloth...

Author: By Sharon C. Yang, | Title: Deepti Choubey, We Hardly Knew Ye | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...Lloyd is everything we'd expect him to be: a predictably amoral executive who clings to the upper wrung of the management ladder like a sloth to a tree branch, fighting to protect his slice of generous options and to overindulge in brown liquids, Cuban smokes, aged red meat and not-so-aged women other than his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Company Man | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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