Word: sobbing
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...With "no sense for color or pattern." Wyeth has grown rich on a "trick idea --that of recalling the old America." "He knows that if he painted a terrible tumble-down outhouse with a broken toilet seat and called it 'Those Were the Days' people would break down and sob before...
...Nixon's Legal Coach blusters: "But we haven't even decided yet upon the exact nature of the charge--so how can they be innocent? Where is your evidence? Where is your proof?" Meanwhile Vice President What's-his-name is off on an endless tirade--"the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburnes, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum"--against the enemies of the nation. When J. Edgar Heehaw is questioned on the details of the Presidential assasination...
...bestseller may be a bit of a sob story or perhaps even related to the soap opera. Yet Love Story, in its Pollyannish way, does seem to be a purgative of sorts. Your parody, on the other hand, may be "a bestseller bested" or it may be pure pollutant...
...What can you say about a man who takes the No. 1 marshmallow, sob story of the year, and turns it into a one-page masterpiece? I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner...
...choice and dedication, James Jones is a peculiarly American American novelist. His method is oldfashioned, gulp-and-sob realism. His characters-most frequently, of late, the American newly rich who took the cash and let the culture go-are presented pretty much in their own words. The result often brings to mind Nancy Mitford's unkind remark that citizens of the U.S. speak English as if wrestling with a foreign tongue. That confronts the thoughtful pro-Jones reader with a dilemma. If Jones takes these clichés seriously, can he be any smarter than the people he writes...