Word: stuttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years had flown all over the world with Graham to organize local counseling programs to supplement Graham's message. In striking contrast to the sophisticated, glamorous, powerful men at the top, they are homey, plodding yes-men; they do drudge work; they carry pamphlets detailing The Way; they stutter and stare blankly when asked questions that aren't in the pamphlets. They are the peddlers. The glamorous leaders are the front men. And Billy Graham is their product--a very marketable product...
...terms heard most frequently on truckers' CB is "smokey bear"-the highway patrolman. The air waves virtually stutter with cries of "Breaker, break!" (the standard shortwave request to cut in on a channel) when a smokey sets up his radar. "You better get green stamps [cash] ready," warns a gruff voice on the Indiana toll road. One trooper even ticketed a trucker for urinating by the roadside. That cop's handle is now Fly Inspector. A more common offense is riding overweight, which can result hi a fine of several hundred dollars. Some gutsy drivers sneak around weigh...
Against this background, Gilbert's material, and his approach to it, would appear almost certain to capture that adjective he seems most to be struggling for: "refreshing." Almost everyone who has ever watched American television has wished that just once a character would stutter, stammer, deliver an inappropriate line, allow a sentence to trail off unconvincingly, show a real emotion, be, for once, human. The Louds do all these things, unconsciously, and Gilbert does provide a fascinating portrait of a sitcom family without their one-liners...
...weekend to make the most diehard TV football fan feel as if he were caught at the bottom of a goal-line pileup. There, stutter-stepping and buttonhooking across the screen last week, were no fewer than 20 teams battling away for 30 eye-straining hours. By the time the last goal post had been torn down, a few basic truths had filtered through...
...genius. His genius aside. Clapton was too humble to be flash. Alice Cooper and Ian Anderson? Theatrics. David Bowie and Rod Stewart? Rock star trips. Steve Marriott? Punk arrogance, and Peter Townshend, for all his onstage pyrotechnics, has been sneaky serious ever since perfect placement of that primal teenage stutter on "My Generation...