Word: locker-room
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...laissez-faire baby sitter. It asks only that the viewer believe what he sees, that he go with the flow of seductive images and return to intellectual infancy as a passive, pacified fun sucker. The young audience that makes hits these days out of laser shows and locker-room frolics seems bored with the notion that the mind has a life too. And few moviemakers, even the smart ones, are choosing to exercise their craft for the benefit of anyone old enough to vote...
...situations are as colorful as your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience...
...stay home with his wife and children. From the reader's point of view, this is a good thing. A domesticated DelCorso, brooding about integrity, mortgage payments and marriage, proves to be unbearable. Abroad, he is the subject of an oldfashioned, manly novel, crisply written with plenty of locker-room banter and bang-bang. -By R.Z. Sheppard
That tumultuous scene last week, reminiscent of a locker-room victory celebration, marked a more esoteric kind of triumph. When the green line made its telltale movement at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the sprawling high-energy physics research center outside Chicago, it signified a major scientific achievement. At that instant, Fermilab's newly rebuilt accelerator (physicists prefer that term to atom smasher) climbed to 512 billion electron volts (GeV),* the highest energy level ever reached by the powerful machines used by physicists to study the fundamental secrets of matter...
Down 21-13 near the end of the first half. Harvard gave up eight straight and entered the locker-room on the short end of a 29-13 game. Only a few minutes into the second half, Princeton led by 26, 51-25. But the Crimson, showing signs of life, narrowed the lead to 12 thanks to a few Princeton turnovers and Harvard fast breaks...