Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who spent the last few years in a U-boat contemplating the essence of tubular technology, the Risky Business plot/phallic line is simple enough: parents vacate, boy stays home, boy meets prostitute, boy and prostitute open brothel in the folk's house, boy loses girl, boy loses furniture (prostitute played by daughter of noted conservative TV talkshow host). It's yer basic bare bones plot. While Joel calls himself a businessman, he's really just the businessman's Girl Friday, and the businessman's the girl in the world's oldest profession...
...GRADUATE (Harvard Square). Mike Nichols' masterwork whips the desperation motif into full-fledged obsession with a strong 60's tinge. It's Dustin Hoffman's first film role and arguably his best as the boy next door seduced by the mother next door who falls for the girl next door. For freshmen, at least one screening is as perfunctory as first-year writing class--not to be practiced on vacations, but for collegiate literacy the next time someone mumbles, "Just like The Graduate...
This, coming from a girl of 14, dressed in leather boots and a denim jacket, singing bits of Kate Bush songs in between pats at her razorback hair...
...very level-headed and a very mature girl. That's unusual for a freshman," Sheehan says. "Those are important qualities for a Harvard student and especially for a Harvard athlete...
...high school cross country coach used to tell the story of a girl he coached who lost a shoe in a mud puddle at the state cross country meet, and still finished ninth...