Word: hyper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cross the wild and crazy humor of Steve Martin with the well-calculated mania of Carl Reiner and what do you get? A hyper hybrid movie called The Jerk. About a weirdo white raised by a poor black Southern family, who;hearing his first Lawrence Welk record, hits the road north to find his own kind of music. "All they played when I was a kid," explains Martin, a.k.a. the Jerk, "was blues." Martin mints a fortune by inventing nonslip eyeglasses, loses it when Reiner, in a walk-on as an irate consumer, brings a successful suit in behalf...
Ferrante said that some people call her a "space cadet" because she "doesn't get hyper over being late to practice." However, her collection of empty pen cartridges--begun because someone told her that she needed a hobby--suggests that label may have some credence...
Substituting for the injured Pete Walsh, who hyper-extended his hand in practice and may be healed for Saturday's UConn game, goalie Billy Blood rose to the task on the one or two occasions he was tested. With about 15 minutes left he leapt high to punch a free kick away from the dangerous head of 6'5" Steve Mooney...
...take this line, apparently reasoning that in the first week, blissful ignorance and complete openness make for the best approach. It's probably not a bad idea; there's no better time, ever, to meet people here, but the forced socialization, as it were, tends to create weird, hyper situations. There's a lot of nervous energy floating around during Freshman Week, as everyone gets used to roommates, Cambridge, and the total freedom of college life. Approach #1 is recommended for people who are either unafraid or too socially inept to know better, and requires a high tolerance for embarrassment...
...resort to a) "crossing over" to the lucrative popular music field; b) giving up on music and starving as recluses; or c) simply dying young. Jaki Byard represents a growing number of jazz figures who have averted both personal and artistic disaster by "taking it easy" and weathering this hyper decade as music educators and occasional low-key local performers...