Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shainess, a psychiatrist, is engaged in redefining masochism. It is not the usual deviant behavior that guys joke about in the locker room. Instead, it is at daily component in most women's lives. According to Shiness, masochism begins within the family when parents, perpetuating a pattern they learned in their first homes, begin to damage their child's fragile...
Pickens is as much at ease in the executive suite as he is in the locker room. He likes to dangle one leg over the arm of a chair while presiding over weekly executive sessions. In his office, which is outfitted with English antiques and Western art, he is fond of propping his feet on his desk while he contentedly pores over sheafs of documents...
...women on the scene. With her squashed face looking as if it is pressed perpetually behind glass, Lauper is every lost girl's projection of success: a little nutty, a lot mocking and splendidly vindicated, all in her own terms. Madonna is a dream off the back of a locker door, taunting and yielding, a teen male fantasy that slips into an adolescent world where everything is outsize - even and especially (feminists take note, please) all- male heavy-metal bands. She is good grist for gossip, a cute little bundle, media-wrapped and media-savvy. "I think...
...final, frustrating to a tough season, a 30-28 loss to Yale. But in the varsity football locker room after the game, among the sweaty, sulking figures, several rambunctious boys playfully darted amongst the benches and towels...
...matter with kids' movies today? There are too damn many of them, that's what, and they are all about the same damn thing. Since 1978, when National Lampoon's Animal House revived the teenpix genre, rites of passage have become Kabuki rituals: popping zits, snapping towels in the locker room, dancing in the streets, ogling the girls in the shower, getting crazy drunk and tearing up the strip in a "borrowed" Porsche and grossing out Mom and Dad. Sentient adults must unite to cry: Enough already! The glandular convulsions of adolescence are just not interesting or complex enough...