Word: stumblebum
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Early Cezanne the stumblebum turned into one of the finest manipulators of paint who has ever lived. Perhaps manipulator is the wrong word--it suggests trickery, whereas in Cezanne the relation between the paint surface and the imagined surface of the object (a rock, the side of a house, an apple) is astonishingly direct and candid. This doesn't come across in reproduction. It rises from the paint itself, that discreet paste in which every trace left by the brush seems to help create the impression of solidity, so that you feel you could pick the apple--which is both...
...primal-nature movement ran a year in Chicago and has chugalugged onto off- Broadway. The show offers fans of the departing sitcom Cheers, wondering how to cope without their favorite palookas, a two-hour maintenance dose of Norm, the fat, idle, beer-guzzling oaf with the inexplicably likable stumblebum smirk...
...trouble out of the air the way a seagull fields thrown french fries. He becomes the client of a bodacious middle-aged woman defense attorney by overhearing a gabby, Mob-connected New Orleans lawyer as this fellow is rambling his way toward suicide. Soon the clownish Mafia and the stumblebum cops are chasing after Mark and his motherly mouthpiece. Gnome alone! Hide Nintendo and try this one on your clever 11-year...
...claustrophobic, smoke-filled rooms. For several years before that, not much had been seen of Guston's work; he was thought to have run out of steam, and so his new work was treated as a gesture of desperation, an aesthete's efforts to look like a stumblebum. If anyone had suggested in those days that the figurative Gustons would exert a pervasive influence on American art ten years later, the idea would have seemed incredible...
Ford often laughs at the stumblebum jokes that are a staple of political comics. They do not bother him, partly because he is an extraordinarily secure personality -and partly because he knows he is the most coordinated and best preserved tenant of the White House since Teddy Roosevelt. Ford walked into a staff meeting the other day bragging about the 94 that he had shot at the tough Congressional Country Club course, site of last week's PGA Tournament. "I parred five holes," he proudly announced to aides assembled to discuss the weighty affairs of the world...