Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets a chance to retaliate at home against the Chiefs tonight, and one senses that the Terriers' coach Jack Parker won't let his team look ahead to the Crimson again. But if Harvard should lose to Princeton, what stands to be one of the year's most anticipated college hockey matchups could a lot of its luster...
Their chances will be even better if the White Sox's camp turns into a media circus courtesy of Michael Jordan. Face it--with Jordan around, the Sox will be less focused than the Hubble telescope pre-repair. Maybe a few Jack McDowell braking pitches will convince Jordan that hard courts beats hard ball. but still, he may surprise...
...ballpark of 150 lines and 300 PAC [codes]," Jack Wise, manager of the Harvard Student Telephone Office, said yesterday when asked about the number of students affected...
This brings us to the movie's real business, which is to get Jack and Mona wrestling around together. Some blood is spilled on these occasions, so a sex- and-violence equivalency is established. There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft...
Sleep is supposed to be the kingdom of our own monsters -- that nightscape where the id, unshackled by scruple, runs wild and plays out every dreamer's scenarios of fear fulfillment. But in his 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney had an even spookier idea: that sleep is when the sentry of common sense nods off and allows our enemies, not ourselves, to invade and conquer. Pod seeds fall from outer space and rob sleeping humans of their emotions, their very selves. It was Us vs. Them, cold-war style -- and in this cunning parable of persecution...