Word: jock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REST of the film follows Chris's emotional ups and downs as she prepares for the Olympic meet, and it is here that Towne cups out in the name of truth, justice and the American way. Enter former Olympic medalist Kenny Moore, as a handsome jock who sets out to rescue Chris from her very own fate-worse-than-death. He's kind, generous, considerate--probably one of the nicest, handsome jocks she's ever met--and the two soon find themselves in love...
Vujovic was upset by the "jock image" attached to all athletes. "A lot of soccer players at Harvard wanted to give up soccer this year," he said at the time. "People tend to overlook that you have other talents and interests. [Foreign players] are proud--something like this insults them. In Europe sport is considered an art. Here people just look at you as a soccer player...
Picking up jock straps, rebounding basketballs during pre-game warm-ups, pouring Gatorade into Dixie Cups and folding socks were only a few of the integral contributions to the team...
...examples of people flaunting their money Extravagance promises a ready way to self-help, to rising above the crowd. Extremism in the pursuit of riches is no vice. We link it first to priceless human virtues, like individual drive and creativity, and only later on waste and self-indulgence. Jock Whitney's insistence on thinner wine-glasses may be only frivolous arrogance, but some will admire it anyway, forgetting perhaps Mahatma Gandhi's example of resistance to oppression As Cornelius Vanderbilt said. "The public be damned...
...delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though he spends much of his service playing cards with generals, he is surprised...