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...mistake, he watches a trashy teenpic called Hotpants College 2 and finds, he thinks, a reason for loving. In an actor named Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestley), Giles sees all the beauty of the ages in one glorious package. The donnish writer buys fan mags, rents B-minus films, immerses himself in the detritus of Bostockiana. To your eyes Ronnie might seem a bland dreamboat, but that is part of the fun in this delicious comedy. And part of the truth: for it is a mark of obsession that it fixes its gaze on an object whose appeal is inexplicable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Short Takes: Love and Death on Long Island | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Correct. Four X minus...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: Who's the Idiot Now? | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

While Feaster's supporting cast stepped up with authority against the Quakers, led by junior guard Suzie Miller's career-high 33 points, the distribution of scoring against the Tigers raised further concerns about the extent to which the Crimson minus Feaster is pulling its weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Hoops Hope to Recover Diginity | 2/13/1998 | See Source »

There is no reason to believe that our current writers have strong convictions. Most of them seem to write the literary journalism" popularized in the '60s, minus any anti-establishment impulse. A typical article features some interesting event or person communicated in a "fresh" style that capitalizes on the writerly personality of the author...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literati for Sale | 2/12/1998 | See Source »

Ninety minutes later, minus three minutes, I'm standing in subzero conditions outside Holden Chapel. I shake off my jacket and yank off my shorts, and the canvas is unveiled to a motley audience of screaming, shivering students in several stages of undress. Most are too busy to notice me. The men, scattered around the clearing, are undressing clumsily and pumping their fists with alternating wicked grins and nervous glances. The women, gathered in small circles and slowly peeling off one piece after another, smile hesitantly at each other, their arms folded across their chests in symbolic gestures of modesty...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak, | Title: Running Proud | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

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