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...this year for the first time, the College has a new kind of international Olympic superstar--a chemistry jock...

Author: By Andrew R. Elby, | Title: Freshman Takes Bronze in Chemistry Olympics | 12/7/1984 | See Source »

...Christopher Lloyd (Zenned-out on an inner voice that must sound like Daffy Duck's), Ellen Barkin (with her bruised features and street-angel smile) and Jeff Goldblum (heartthrob of the Mensa sorority) clues Buckaroo Banzai as very chic scifi. Lithgow, the movies' Mr. Versatile (transsexual jock in The World According to Garp, bumbling lover in Terms of Endearment, incendiary preacher in Footloose), here does a manic turn as Dr. Lizardo; it is as if old mad Ezra Pound were played by Klaus Kinski. And Weller-his cobalt eyes borrowed from Paul Newman, his iron jaw from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It Came from Beyond Bananas | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

...take steroids are playing with dynamite," says Robert Goldman, 29, a former wrestler and weight lifter who is now a research fellow in sports medicine at Chicago Osteopathic Medical Center and who has just published a book on steroid abuse, Death in the Locker Room (Icarus; $19.95). "Any jock who uses these drugs is taking chances not just with his health but with his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Toughest Test for Athletes | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...just a woman in funny clothes and a jock strap. They don't think the same, except about things like higher math. But neither are they an alien or inferior form of life. From the point of view of the novelist, this discovery has wide-ranging implications....But first, a small digression, partly to demonstrate that when people ask you whether you hate men, the proper reply is "Which ones?"--because, of course, the other big revelation of the evening is that not all men are the same. Some of them have beards. Apart from that, I have never been...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Voice of One's Own | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

There is some cute interplay between these very earthy--both literally and figuratively--criminals and their hos', Max, a wimpy video-addict computer jock who is not even a real man in the literal sense. The professor becomes furious when he learns that visitors have been allowed into his station, but his heart melts--just like Max's--when he sees Maggie: he needs a real woman as a model for designing his female android...

Author: By Thomas Reiss, | Title: Out of This World | 3/22/1984 | See Source »

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