Word: hotshots
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...decent stab at exposing the high-pressure, win-at-all-costs nature of intercollegiate sports, a topic deserving of much scrutiny. On that level, One on One is fine; unfortunately, it descends to the level of mawkish boredom in detailing the march to maturity of its main character, a hotshot basketball player portrayed by Robbie Benson...
There's good reason to be insecure. The transition from being a highschool hotshot to a lost freshman is an enormous one, and in the first few days it's all too easy to feel intimidated by the seemingly-brilliant people here. A freshman describes here roommate: "I don't think it's going to work out. I mean, she just rattled off all the A.P. courses she took, how she'll probably take sophomore standing, how much she's read. I have to ask myself what I'm getting into here; she's already made me feel inferior...
Holy Cross came to town December 18, determined to break the Crimson's four-game winning streak against it. Led by local freshman hotshot Ronnie Perry and backcourt mate Bill Doran, the Crusaders pilgrimaged to a quick 18-6 lead...
...daughter of the chaplain at Macalester College (he is Presbyterian, while Mondale's father was a Methodist minister), Joan Adams was a freshman when Mondale was an upperclassman there. But, she says, he was such a "hotshot political star" that he never noticed her. They met on a blind date while he was attending law school at the University of Minnesota and became engaged 53 days later-a truly whirlwind courtship in view of the fact that Mondale was so involved at the time in state politics that he saw her only once a week...
...wasn't used to this stuff--I grew up a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, named for a hotshot New York lawyer, ultramodern, no bleachers. General Admission filled with clean-cut cheerful-looking kids whose mothers encouraged them to play at Little League, but just so it didn't interfere with their schoolwork. I got my wallet stolen, once, and my program lots of times--but after all I never really scored properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe...