(10.) Koch, H: Otto, A:
Schlump, W: Stainless Steel and the Challenge of Time.
Indeed, in Hamburg's first car-free project, Stadthaus
Schlump, and in Halle's Johannesplatz project, virtually each household now owns an automobile.
Moby `I'm kind of a
schlump now, but there was a week of my life when I was actually vain.
Not long ago Brad Oscar was just another loveless
schlump on Broadway earning bad reviews.
In the movie "Getting Straight," a youthful Elliott Gould plays a
schlump named Harry who, during his masters oral, witnesses a riot breaking out on his college campus.
Some new facts have come to light in the interim, but the case against Richard Nixon's secretary of state stands much as it did in 1976, when a character in Joseph Heller's novel Good as Gold characterized Kissinger "as an odious
schlump who made war gladly," a quote with which Hitchens opens his book.
Wallace Shawn--like Lahr, a scion of New York glitterati--emerges as a willfully split personality: both self-effacing
schlump and caustic social satirist.
Bill had great timing, did his facial shtick well and got the
schlump walk perfectly.
(47.) On the Kamisar, LaFave & Israel Modern Criminal Procedure casebook, I am viewed by my colleagues as the token Gentile, who occasionally can make a unique contribution, as when I once pointed out to them a place in the galley proofs where they had mistakenly referred to the Chief Justice as "Berger" rather than "Burger." Yet I know what a schlemiel is (though I have never been able to figure out the other words which my two collaborators have directed toward me over the years, including but not limited to: chazzer, chutzpenik, ganek, k'vatsh, oysvurf, pustunpasnik, putz, schlepp, schmuck,
schlump, shvister, szhlok, traifnyak, yatebedam, yold, and zhulik).
Where George was the epitome of Yiddish-British fashion, Ira was an unshaven
schlump. Where George was a workaholic, Ira would take half a day to drag himself to his writing table.
Working from a crafty script by John Strysik, Gordon establishes a heightened-reality tone of bleak hilarity early on while introing two lead characters: Tom (Stephen Rea), a sad-eyed
schlump who has lost his job to downsizing; and Brandi (Mena Suvari), a dedicated retirement-home caregiver who devotes far too much of her downtime to partying, drinking and drugging.
* Jeanie and Roger
Schlump live in a brick cottage in Laramie, Wyoming, next door to a large warehouse that used to be an eyesore.
When she tells him, "You need a platform," the
schlump draws a total blank.
But Barbra adds: "I'm a
schlump. At home I'm really a very simple person.