Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down to the fieldhouse about eleven and head for your locker to get your things together but there's nothing new in your locker, you've seen it forty-seven thousand times and it smells about the same as well, and the guys that work down there have put your uniform in it so you can't pass any time doing that so you head into the training room to get taped up as a last resort. You ask around to see how long the lines are at each taping table and you try and worm into the line...
...neither pretty nor slim and had few genuine friends. But she was always chasing somebody. She would zero in on a man, usually a soccer player, drop in on him late night, find transparent excuses to talk to him, run into him "accidently." (Oh, is this the men's locker room?) People laughed at her and pitied her but she was oblivious to the ridicule. She frequently did "get" her man but only on his terms. And the demands were always the same. "You're real sweet, Suzanne," they would tell her. "Sure, you can come spend the night here...
...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...
...finally saves just about everyone, and that part of the film has documentary interest. Still, one cannot help feeling that something is wrong with the movie's value systems. Nary a word of regret is spared for the great art that ends up in Davy Jones's locker, while there is rejoicing over the salvage of the most expendable portion of the cargo -all those stale hams...
This study of football training camps and locker rooms sparked Plimpton to write about the life of a professional baseball player in "Out of My League" and the trials of a professional golfer in "The Bogey...