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...teacher in the Odessa school system, I would like to remind you that the Greeks, who held scholars in the highest esteem, also prized athletes. I have never had an A-student jock who did not place English, math, science and history above athletic honors, and I have had more A-type jocks than those scraping to pass...
...camouflaged her engineering as sexual equipment: her breasts encased solar batteries. Lee Majors as The Six Million Dollar Man was simply state-of-the-art beefcake. Now an ABC show of stupefying banality called Auto-man offers a fluorescent, blond Superman who is summoned up by a wimpish computer jock in moments of crisis. Automan owes more to I Dream of Jeannie than to computer science, however. Another new show, NBC's Riptide, has something for every armchair technocrat, including a klutzy orange robot with a display screen in its chest and a silly grin on its mute face...
Come with us once again to those dear dead days when the world seemed young and in danger of not being able to grow old; when Johnny Jock and Suzie Coed had casual sex and political principles; when their undeferred buddies were spilling blood on foreign soil; when a Republican President could inflame humanists simply by waving nuclear sabers at the Russkies. Ladies and gentlemen . . . the Seventies! All together now: "Up on your feet,/ Press all your points,/ Eat Germ of Wheat,/ Toke on your joints,/ Ev'rybody do the Doonesbury Drag...
...Cruise travels from the Chicago North Shore glitz of Risky Business to the dying towns of the Appalachian Coal Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could...
...post-Hemingway adventurer like Russel Price (Nick Nolte) does not, of course, permit himself to articulate such aspiring thoughts. With his thick voice, his beefy former jock's build and his wary-passive manner, Nolte plays Price (very authentically) as a man who is all reflexes of the single-lens variety. The big picture in Nicaragua, as the Somoza regime yields to the Sandinistas in 1979, means little to Price, who is portrayed as being on assignment for TIME; he is more concerned with the succession of little moneymakers he must try to capture as they flee past...