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...company's big break came when director Oliver Stone used Under Armour in his football movie, Any Given Sunday. Stone called for a futuristic-looking jockstrap for Jamie Foxx to wear in a locker-room scene with Cameron Diaz. Plank had it stitched up, and seized the chance to plaster an Under Armour logo front and center. When the movie premiered in December 1999, Plank gambled his working capital to buy his first ad, a half page in ESPN magazine. That and the buzz about Foxx's eye-popping jock brought $500,000 in sales almost overnight and boosted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tight Skivvies | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...Maybe he does. Or a gentile jockstrap masquerading as a Freudian analyst (and fooling no one). Or Howard Hughes. But the motive for Gore's beard is not ideological. The beard is not a badge - not a party uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...More complicated still: Another member of the club, lounging in a jockstrap and speaking in the accents of aristocratic lockjaw, tells the towel attendant: " You're absolutely right. What's happened is a disgrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unity, Vote Counts and Other Illusions | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

Last year's lambing has become part of House legend. Residents recalled that lambing victim Mike Bush '99 wore only a jockstrap while receiving a treatment that he apparently enjoyed...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Auction Draws Crowds With 'Lambing' | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...comparative simplicity of his character (validated by his good genes) will harden into a virtue of reliability that will be his greatest asset. But the public will wonder whether that one Bush is good enough - smart enough, mature enough, experienced enough. His body English is troubling (a certain jockstrap immaturity), and his spoken English can be even worse (incomplete sentences, spluttering non sequiturs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's the One (Bush) vs. the Many (Gore) | 3/7/2000 | See Source »

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