Word: jocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interesting to watch these characters hang out. Some of them are very appealing, especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend the movie philosophizing and screwing up courage to engage in appropriate senior activities, and the nice, shy girl, Sabrina (Christin Hinojosa). For the purposes of the movie they're all like the people you went...
...About Getting Down." It solemnly notes, "It was a bad thing to do the wild thing without the blessing from the Almighty. You had to be hitched." And, in Genesis, Joseph rejects Potiphar's wife because he "couldn't betray a homeboy that way. Also, he couldn't jock the Almighty either, 'cuz it wouldn't be right sleeping with somebody else's ol' lady...
Another event of two weekends ago, however, the opening of Sylvester Stallone's ridiculous rock-jock thriller Cliffhanger, left lots to say. For one thing, the movie is set in Colorado but was filmed in Italy. The towering white needles of the Dolomites don't look anything like the massive peaks of the Rockies, and . . . ah, the hell with it. What really irks is that all the heroics, the nifty pendulum swings and the human-fly action below the 40-ft. overhangs, are sure to bring more flatlanders into the mountains...
...Wasinger's opinion, Wilson is just another campus gov jock waiting for the 2030 presidential race: "Harry Wilson has already started making out Christmas cards for his campaign. He is a smooth operator, very slippery...
...year-old girls -- up from 19% in 1982. Among sexually active teenage girls, 61% have had multiple partners, up from 38% in 1971. Among boys, incidents like the score-keeping Spur Posse gang in California and the sexual-assault convictions of the Glen Ridge, New Jersey, jock stars suggest that whatever is being taught, responsible sexuality isn't being learned...