Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classics" to hit box offices in recent memory are The East American Virgin (lots of bodies, lots of sap), class (lots of Jacqueline Bisset, more sap), and Private Lessons (more of the same, minus Jacqueline Bisset). As long as teenagers continue demand a peek at what lies beyond the locker room producers will continue to churn out such films en masse, with more regard for profits than artistic quality...
...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...
...lineage of running backs, he followed Herschel Walker, who also came from a small, once racially troubled town, Wrightsville, Ga. Walker scored 86 high school touchdowns, Dupree 87. "You'll get tired of all the attention," Walker warned the next great player when they were introduced in the locker room one afternoon after a Georgia game. "I already have," Dupree said...
...dissenters in the New Jersey case argued that it is common knowledge among students that administrators could use a pass key to enter any locker, and this makes the lockers less protected. The idea that hotel managers could use pass keys does not mean they may let police ransack guests' rooms at will...
Taken to its logical extreme, this rationale would let police search any home anywhere because police could physically break down any door and most people realize this. In a bitter twist of irony, the majority of the New Jersey Court suggested that random locker searches would be legal if students knew that their lockers could be physically searched. Here, as with the supreme court's condonement of roadblocks searching every car on a given road, we have the new legal doctrine of equal injustice masquerading as equal protection...