Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Parties in Pennypacker suffer less from the Budweiser-jock syndrome this year, and the only spare tires in sight belong to a few of the proctors. In fact, life in general at "the Pack" is now, by all accounts, something people are happy to talk about--a far cry from the days when residents regularly bemoaned being stranded in "the slums of Harvard," flushed away in "the cesspool of the University." In the first year since crowding forced the University to break with the past and house women in the Union Dorms, Pennypacker has pulled a startling about face, becoming...
Romantic Dream. One of the film's high points occurs at the senior prom, where the star jock (William Katt, a young actor of near Redfordian charm) has been gulled into dating Carrie in or der to set her up for her fall. He begins to respond to her unaffectedly, and Carrie is suddenly living a dream of romance long cherished. Their waltz, full of discovery and promise, is a very touching thing. It is especially poignant since the audience knows what those vicious girls are planning and suspects what havoc Carrie will unleash in response...
Shaw also mentions another benefit of crew: "Many of the women on the team never had the chance to get extensively involved in a sport throughout high school. Crew is a chance for many of us to experience the jock life that is associated with sports...
...nigger," he screamed at Norton, in a meeting room at Grossinger's hotel. "You a yellow nigger. And your movies are bad." Ali lifted a poster displaying a photo of Norton that had appeared in the Village Voice. Posed next to a sink, Norton wore only a jock...
...Plan. MacDougall, 48, is creative director of Humphrey Browning MacDougall Inc., which has $30 million in annual billings-small potatoes by Manhattan standards but enough to make it Boston's biggest ad agency. He is best known in the advertising community for being the first "to call a jock a jock" in a campaign for Bike brand underwear ("There's nothing like a washed-out jock"). Other successful MacDougall slogans: "It takes two hands to handle a whopper. The two-fisted burger from Burger King"; "Salada-the coffee drinker...