Word: jp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figure out what the password "cat-pack kiss" was, or who exactly was doing it and how. Now, for what it's worth, W, Women's Wear Daily's biweekly supplement, offers "Juicy People." W solemnly reports two ways that JPs can be recognized: "Watch a JP cut into a steak. He always makes the first cut right in the center. Get to the pleasure fast." And: "Ask your lover to fold his hands. If the left thumb overlaps the right one, he's a JP...He thinks with his heart. If the right thumb overlaps...
...subject, to be sure, is a serious one. But JP Miller, who wrote the similarly devious Days of Wine and Roses, is really not interested in it. What occupies his time is repeated and virulent attacks on youth, who are portrayed throughout as spoiled, selfish, loveless and unloving brats. There are a couple of cursory attempts to explain young people's interest in drugs (Mommy takes lots of pills, Daddy is a booze hound), but they all smack of smug rationalization. In the midst of all these dismal goings on are several fine actors yelling to get out. Wallach...
Then there was the low division-Brighton, Roslindale, Trade, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain. I mean, you had to do it like that. Schools like JP and Dot were getting murdered. And you never knew who was best when both Charlestown and B.C. High were going undefeated in their own league and never got to play each other...