Word: jock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needs only a few credits for her bachelor's degree at the University of Southern California. A partly written novel lies fallow. Good sense rules her life, though she has been known to wander off go- cart driving with Brat Packers Emilio Estevez and Judd Nelson (respectively, the jock and the punk of The Breakfast Club, and the waiter and Sheedy's lover of the hanging-out-after-college film St. Elmo's Fire...
...every concentration. At a typical party you might hear: "Oh, you're an Economics major. What position do you play?" or "Irving there is a Computer Science major. He's going to make a lot of money, but he's not a real person." or "Nancy is a Gov jock. Not bad looking for a fascist, eh?" or even "Watch your wallet; Bruce there behind...
...worst thing about Kirkland House is the result of perceptions that outsiders maintain about the students living in it. These people use the "jock" label very freely in a negative context, viewing Kirkland residents almost as second-class residents in certain aspects of College life...
...just the players, or some of them, who fail to fulfill the positive scholar-athlete stereotype. The Department of Athletics also may play fast and loose on occasion. Percs--such as better meals, no work "jock jobs," and tutoring--are rumored to help make athletes' college lives more pleasant...
...master at building social comedy to the apex of hysteria, then pulling a happy-ending miracle out of his hat. Ron Howard, even after Splash and Cocoon, ain't these guys, yet. When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally...