Word: slouching
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...Exclusive Social Club and adopt the so-called "Molloy's Class Mask." The key to becoming so facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle" and "left" "weft...
...morning, outside St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Detroit, about 20 men slouch against a wall, waiting for Father Tom Lumpkin to open a soup kitchen. Some are the traditional clients: winos and street people, refugees from a coherent, workaday life. But these days there is a new and growing group whose presence seems to Father Lumpkin a shocking sign of Michigan's economic blues. They are men in their prime, sturdy, able but unemployed, and baffled to find themselves taking charity...
Private Benjamin, meet Meatballs. Bill Murray of Saturday Night Live, meet Harold Ramis, John Candy, Joe Flaherty and Dave Thomas of SCTV. Psycho from Taxi Driver, meet martial music from 1941. Tired moviegoer, meet tired moviemakers. And note: Murray, he of the choirboy face and pseudo-hip slouch, is convincing as a soldier who maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn...
...REST of the cast members deliver uniformly fine and funny performances. Charles Grodin, as Pat's plastic husband Vance, has perfected his wimp's smile and slouch; he's made a career of portraying obnoxious sissies. Ned Beatty is appropriately sleazy as Vance's boss, the advertising king who wants to hide the secret of Pat's shrinking because it could cause a "crisis of confidence in American consumerism...
...upbeat Al Stewart tune on the public address system is cut off in mid-chorus; drums roll, and "The Star Spangles Banner" swells in its place. The slightly bewildered shoppers rise from their seats. Some giggle nervously, some slouch, most stand at attention...