galoot

Hillbilly Galoot, 1960, absurdly balances on the floor on tippy-toe horns of pointed steel.

In the wake of 9/11, this congregation and its ministers sponsored a series of epiphany sermons that compared the biblical stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, David and Goliath with their counterparts in the Qur'an--Aadam and Hawaa, Habeel and Qabeel, Dawoud and Galoot. The resulting many-layered study is structured around 25 familiar biblical figures who appear in the Islamic scriptures.

"Stanley, tell that big galoot to stop swinging for home runs," he said, and added, "I mean Grasso." Harris agreed and diagnosed the problem as Mickey lunging to take a big swing, when he could just as easily use his arms to poke more singles and doubles in the spacious Griffith stadium.

"Now who is that lankylooking galoot over there in the macintosh?" a nonplussed Leopold Bloom wonders in the "Hades" episode of Ulysses, catching a glimpse of an unaccounted-for stranger attending the funeral of Paddy Dignam (115).

There's a moment I distinctly remember, for example, in director Lou Jacob's modestly conceived Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's The God of Hell a few years ago when Randy Quaid, playing a good-natured Midwestern galoot, swung open the front door of the shabby farmhouse David Korins had designed to perfection to represent incipient heartland Republicanism, and we in the audience could hear the ambient sound of the windswept prairie rush into the room.

The narrator is a loner who is most content just hanging around with his dog Idgit Galoot. He is thirty-five years old and still lives with his mother.

I love that big galoot even when he drinks from the toilet bowl and then nuzzles me.

This dopey galoot who hosted Crufts had patently never read an autocue before.

To add insult to injury, our main destroyers were not graceful, eloquent stylists in the mould of Gower or Brearley but a big galoot known as Freddie and a Yarpie boofhead called Pietersen.

Quaid plays Parker, the man who makes it all happen--the tours, the movies, the millions of dollars--like a galoot fresh out of finishing school, and Patrick Sheane Duncan's script reminds over and over that his background is as a carney.

A tall man with a grizzled mustache and a cell phone clipped to the waist of his pleated chinos, Gary van Deursen is not a galoot. He has studied and admired the tools made by his predecessors, but he thinks his are better.

My question is this: When is a big galoot allowed to "chin himself" on the rim (without penalty) and when not?

Published in PM, "Uncle Sam Stands Up" rejoiced in twelve four-line stanzas that: The great big gabble headed Red White and Blue galoot Has drawn his 44 and started in to shoot.

The quiet American is just a terrible dancer, a great galoot in a white suit, listing forward and shuffling like a bear.

When they arrive you will hear a twenty-one son galoot.