Word: stooping
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Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop...
...farm laborers gathering up a potato crop. In rigid lines and soulless silence, they move forward, whisking loose dirt from the potatoes and tossing them into baskets. They are harrowing illustrations from Edwin Markham's The Man with the Hoe: "Time's tragedy is in that aching stoop...
...bitching, or at least Hollywood bitching, makes juicy reading Goldman bares the egos, the money hassles, the politicking and nepotism behind the hallowed arches of studio gates and we eat it up. Though he'll stoop to complaining about airport baggage claim, and paints his calling as the most thankless in a business of thankless tasks, he vividly conveys the soulless jockeying for position that forever keeps Hollywood out of touch with quality, if not reality...
...Stoop, Romans, stoop...
Every riven family should have this dilemma: 30 years after deserting you, Dad shows up on your stoop with six months to live and $687,000 in cash to buy his way back into your affections. This latest in Neil Simon's fantasies of generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love...