Word: bumming
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...winter light is already dim, and in a Manhattan cafe the blond girl is squirming in her seat, dying for a smoke. The cigarette machine is broken. "This is like a joke," she says, annoyed, and leaves her plate of eggs Benedict to bum a Marlboro from one of the other diners. Smoking happily at last, she gives a quick account of herself, sounding bored beyond her years. She dropped out of high school four years ago, at 15, and has no job and no firm idea of what she will do next. She likes to stay up until...
...nearby Union dorms seems to offer at least one common Harvard experience for undergraduates, officials agree. Hanna Hastings recalls that freshmen assigned to the Quad and then reassigned to a Quad House as upperclassmen because of bad luck in the lottery "really felt that they were given a bum...
...must take immediate action. Precious University resources are flowing from the endowment coffers for pom-poms and megaphones; pleated mini-skirts for the gals, and snug-your-bum slacks for the guys. Underprivileged students, meanwhile, yearn for larger scholarships; scientists of every stripe cut throats for research funds; and the window men at Lowell House have vowed not to remove their scaffolding until someone starts paying the bills down there. Can we afford cheerleaders in times of fiscal austerity...
...says, sending a swift shot to the rake's midriff and pulling his coat down from his shoulders, thus locking the charlatan's hands in his pockets. Instead of disarming the sap as Bogart does at a moment just like this in The Maltese Falcon, Henry sends the bum sprawling into the gutter with an efficient trip. He flips up Higginbottom's coattails and, performing a maneuver familiar to most 11-year-olds as a "wedgle," pulls the elastic of his victim's underwear far into the pitiless...
...Crowe's screenplay reunites his familiar cast: Brad (Judge Reinhold) is the lazily macho chef at the best fast-food joint in town. Damone (Robert Romanus) is the greaser who is about two-fifths as cool as he thinks he is. Spicoli (Sean Penn) is a premature beach bum with a glutinous Valley Boy drawl; he believes that "surfing is a way of life, man-a way of looking at a wave and saying, 'Hey, let's party.' " Linda (Phoebe Cates) and Stacy (Jennifer Jason Leigh) are sweet-faced sexual adventurers on the prowl...