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First, the level of competition improved considerably. Gone were the Boston Colleges, Wagners and Bridgewater States that constitituted the first half of the team's schedule, and in were such powerhouses as Rutgers, Cornell and Seton Hall. The team's schedule was as bottom-heavy as a 1920's pin-up model...
...career girls. That stupid remarks just happen to encapsulate her real character is funny for a moment, but no one wants her to be undone by it. Tragically, for the audience as well as for Leigh, Archer never reacquires her edge or her interest. She ends up a poster pin-up waiting for her man to show some courage while cheers him on from backstage. The transformation is sudden, never mind unconvincing, and affected for no better reason that she was seriously in danger of stealing the show...
...staggering numbers of women who inexplicably take their husbands' names left me vaguely queasy, similar to the way I felt on seeing pictures of Hillary Rodham Clinton (the thinking man's pin-up) in Vogue (The First Lady's mother did, however, confess that HRC bought her wedding dress off the rack only days before the wedding...
Once again--in lobbying for the McClure-Volkmer "Firearms Owners Protection Act" which NRA pin-up Kliesmet is advertising--the NRA has demonstrated its knack at introducing ambiguity into a straightforward issue...
Apollonia Kotero as Apollonia manages to carry off a remarkable yardage of black leather and five-inch heels without coming across as a cardboard pin-up. Supposedly ambitious and bright, she is also quite vulnerable, particularly in her relationship with the Kid, a seductive imp who insists on a Kid-centered universe and turns nasty when his supremacy is threatened. The love between the two frequently reenacts the relationship between the Kid's parents, a failed-musician Black father whose frustration leads him to beat his white wife viciously. When Apollonia announces that she plans to accept a place...