Word: geeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intimidation started well before the opening tap when the Blue Devil cheerleaders acted out a Harvard-bashing skit to the Ray Parker-esque tune of Geek-busters...
Like America itself, in other words, but more urban, more hopped up, less buttoned down. San Francisco's mild but flighty climate must nurture eccentrics. In 1849, the city's commissioner of deeds resigned to become a singer-songwriter. Some years later, a circus geek called Oofty Goofty became a sidewalk S-M entrepreneur: he let passers-by cane him for a quarter or hit him with a baseball bat for four bits. When another local loon, the self-appointed Norton I, Emperor of North America and Protector of Mexico, died in 1880, 30,000 people...
...seems in retrospect. The film is packed with the special pains of the age--embarassing crushes, parents who never fail to miss the point, and a perpetual crisis of self-confidence Sixteen Candles is also filled with the familiar cast of characters, however, Hughes explores the stereotypical "geek," "studly guy" and "awkward freshman" with little of the predictability that characterizes most films about adolescence. Hughes instead captures these awkward years with a rare blend of seriousness and humor...
...school, she gazes adoringly at senior named Jake (Michael Schoeiffling), but only gets attention from a fellow freshman known as the "Geek" (Anthony Michael Hall). The day progresses steadily downhill as Samantha returns home to find her grandparents have moved into her room for her sister's wedding. Finally, her family insists that she take a visiting exchange student to a school dance. Probably not the best birthday on record...
...enough, for example, that Angel (alias Molly Stuart), looks forlorn when riding the school bus to her prep school because she's excluded from the cheerleader clique. And its also pretty bad when she tells the school geek who asks her out that her parents think she's too young to date. But when her college counselor calls her in and tells her "There's more to high school than getting straight A's,"we've had about all we can endure...