Word: jim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objectifying, and in a way that never seems to pertain to guy jocks. Sure, Joe Namath did that take-it-all-off Noxzema ad years ago; Jim Palmer posed in his Jockey shorts, and there's always been a bold sexual element to NBA basketball. But by and large, male sports celebrity is calibrated by success. You win, you make more headlines, you make more dough...
...book I'm reading now is Jim Bouton's "Ball Four," a first-hand account of Major League Baseball in the late 1960s. It was required reading for History 1653, "Baseball and American Society." It was actually a book I enjoyed reading for class, but I just didn't get the chance to finish it because the books kept coming, even though I wasn't ready for them...
...recall of the retro James Bond TV show on which the movie is based, and with more recent memories of the sharp yet genial bite of director Barry Sonnenfeld's Men in Black and Get Shorty, the film is an unmitigated disaster. That's especially so considering that hotheaded Jim West is played by the coolly calculating Will Smith, his epicurean colleague Artemus Gordon by the subtly self-regarding Kevin Kline and Dr. Arliss Loveless by Kenneth Branagh, who seems more amused by Loveless' absolute evil than any audience will...
...much to do with his skill as a technician as it does with his being a good raconteur. "Jimmy has perfected the art of not being predictable," says Lisa Hesser, the show's executive producer. "Most soap opera viewers know they have to watch on Fridays and Mondays, but Jim can have a blockbuster event on a Tuesday." If that event should involve a reincarnated Dodi, well then, all the better...
...doesn't much impress a corporate recruiter. Companies can save on recruitment costs by trying out potential employees over a 10-week summer period. At the investment firm Lehman Brothers, half the college students who intern after junior year become permanent employees. Says Jim Roper, a recruiter there: "They get a look at us, we get a look at them, and it works out pretty well...