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...course, all the participants agreed, there are other reasons for public animus toward the press, including such familiar problems as invasions of privacy and lack of fairness. Inevitably such confessional sessions begin to sound like those jock beer commercials: "More accuracy!" "Less arrogance...
...amorphous group of "athletes" is unfair and narrow-minded. It assumes that the essential character of an individual is defined by an extracurricular, athletic activity, and not the full range of an undergraduate's interests and studies. Is someone who goes jogging every morning or lifts weights considered a jock? Or do you have to earn a varsity letter to be jumbled in with this select group? Is an athlete still one after his or her season is over...
Insignificance is sort of an arty Breakfast Club. A brain, a bombshell, a demagogue and a jock are thrown haphazardly together. They take advantage of this unique situation by incessantly talking to one another. They talk about relativity, they talk about relationships, they talk about their childhood, they talk about their insecurities. As Einstein (here called "the Professor") pithily concludes, "If two people don't give each other time, they give each other nothing...
Chris Cabot as the Ballplayer (who is supposed to be Monroe's real-life husband Joe DiMaggio), has a menacing physical presence. Cabot plays up the stereotype of the dumb jock, but amidst all the gumcracking lie some very clever lines. Granted, he does stupid things, like calling Freud "Floyd." But his stupidity makes him an even more affable character. He's the only one in this clan that doesn't take all of this "smart talk" seriously...
...parallel seems to end there. Wisdom teeth are not funny. Guterman is. With a wry, self-deprecating wit, he attempted to explain what it's like to be a physics major-computer science jock-animator-filmmaker-artist-Harvard student. "Harvard is a sunny day, a leisurely stroll through the Harvard Yard...