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...apparatus, or doing housework--they do all of their own cooking and cleaning. They also play a lot of ping-pong (a good game for the firehouse because it is easily interrupted), watch television or just sit around the kitchen table drinking coffee and engaging in endless streams of locker-room banter...
McLaughlin's boys took the floor for the second-half warm-up looking like a bunch of first-year med students after their first autopsy--there was not the slightest hint of a smile on anyone's face, the probable result of some locker-room fireworks...
...such affection that audiences cared about them and even identified with their failings. Soap contemptuously presents its people as either stupid or conniving or cruel or some hybrid thereof. With so many unpleasant cartoon figures on the screen, Soap's potentially affecting sexual shenanigans devolve into mean-spirited locker-room jokes. It is not Soap's desire to lather on the sex that lands the series in hot water but its insistence on isolating sex from humanity that makes it look dirty...
...there between nymphomania and a marked distaste for fish. It's not that Harvard is so evil, of course--it's just that Georgetown, Fordham, Holy Cross, St. John's and Notre Dame are so, well, orthodox. Maybe if Derek Bok became a Jesuit and Joe Restic started giving locker-room speeches like Pat O'Brien things would be different. But for now, almost every Catholic high school senior unavoidably learns that the path to the Ivy League is fraught with genuine spiritual peril...
...situation was serious enough to bring in General Manager Oscar Feldman to mediate. Porter was temporarily mollified: "There won't be any more griping. What comes, comes." What came was a locker-room melee two weeks later. After an argument between Porter and Brown, Porter left the dressing room, then changed his mind. He returned and, according to one reporter, grappled with Brown while All-Star Center Bob Lanier struggled to separate them. Lanier, the team captain, later described the incident as "a discussion that got into a bigger discussion...