knothead

His voice is recognizably Hanks, with lots of Norman Rockwell phrasing: lollygagging, yowza, thanked his lucky stars, titmouse, knothead, atta baby.

Nothing in the oath that says you can wander off the path and act like a knothead whenever you feel like it, or only follow the orders you feel good about.

A knothead and a hothead who insisted that "a race is a work of art," he also liked to say he'd rather lose in a way that was aesthetically pleasing to him than win by more closely calculated means.

Then imagine him measuring out those years as an unemployed, virtually unemployable, construction worker in one of those small, featureless upstate New York towns -- still a knothead, still a wise guy in revolt against the conventional wisdom, still very recognizably Paul Newman.

There is something of the authentic knothead about Redford.