Word: jaking
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...persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing a set with his samurai sword or gobbling up the scenery in impersonations that ran the gamut from Kissinger to Brando to Jake Blues, a perfect and loving parody of an oldtime soul...
...Kohlberg's scale. Amy is placed on a lower level than Jake because she "seemed to reveal a feeling of powerlessness in the world, an inability to think systematically about the concepts of morality...
...Jake, the 11-year-old boy, had little trouble deciding that the husband should steal the drug. His reasoning that "a human life is worth more than money" would, Gilligan says, place him at a high stage of development on a traditional scale, one that shows a principled concern for fairness and deductive logical thinking...
...amount to nothing more than bad taste. Examples include a young woman with a back brace who is constantly tripping or drenching her face in water fountains, and the Asian exchange student whose name--Long Duck Dong--alone should demonstrate the racist stereotyping of his character. Equally cardboard is Jake's beautiful but shallow girlfriend, who tells Jake: "I fantasize that I'm your wife and we're like the richest, most popular adults in town...
...plot follows the expected twists and turns, with only limited credibility. Why, for example, does Jake take such a sudden, and almost obsessive, interest in the freshman Samantha' It's certainly not the way most sixteen year olds are likely to tell...