Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...married Vincent Astor, the youngest was the legendary society figure Babe Paley), she wrote the book on marrying money. The first wife of F.D.R.'s oldest son, James Roosevelt (when mother-in-law Eleanor was away, Betsey played White House hostess), she was the widow of tycoon John Hay ("Jock") Whitney...
...Basically, our culture, and our style, is to be a rebel, and we sort of enjoy doing that," says Knight, who created a jock empire based on hero worship backed up with good product and great advertising. "Now that we've reached a certain size, there's a fine line between being a rebel and being a bully, and yeah, we have to walk that line...
...home and surf the Internet and send e-mail rather than calling or writing a note or visiting each other." Yet as the story plows on, the barrage of philosophical ramblings begin to take on a preachy tone which descends into irritating evangelism. In the end, ghost-jock Jared returns to heal his lost friends one by one, bringing them hope for the future and divulging the meaning of life. It's difficult not to stop and wonder just why exactly a dead, nymphomaniac football jock is floating through walls, healing the wounded, impregnating women and then unloading...
...randomization experiment will be nearly complete. The Class of 1999 was the guinea pig of the historic change in housing policy that has served to eliminate the peculiar characters of the residential houses; after the Class of 2001 rises to sophomore status this September, the only vestiges of jock culture in Mather House will be its glorious weight room, and Adams House will be left with nothing more artistic than psychedelic hallways and a pool theater...
...problem isn't with taking nude photos of minors per se, nor is it with acknowledging that they are sexual beings. Sally Mann and Jock Sturges are two photographers whose unobjectionable work plies the same waters with, respectively, provocative and banal results (New York Times critic described the typical subject of one of Sturges' photos as "just a J. Crew model with no clothes to sell"). Their work, however, has also been the subject of recent protests, and one of Sturges' books, Radiant Identities, is cited in the Alabama indictment...