Word: popped
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...roles, such as the character Brandon on the hit TV show "Beverly Hills 90210," that have propelled him into nationwide teen idolhood. Similarly, Ronnie Bostock, the heart-throb B-movie actor that Priestly plays in Richard Kwietniowski's debut film, Love and Death on Long Island, occupies an equivalent pop-culture status. Ronnie's biggest fan, however, is not the typical hormone-racked female teenager, but rather the established middle-aged English writer, Giles De'Ath, convincingly played by John Hurt. Hurt gives the film his very best, but he can't overcome the 90210-esque acting of Priestley...
Giles' adolescent-style interest in Ronnie grows rapidly and disturbingly. Some of the best scenes in the movie are the early ones in which Giles explores creative new ways to further his infatuation with Ronnie. Before long, he has accumulated every pop-culture photograph of Ronnie and has stored them an album that he touchingly labels Bostockiana. It is during Giles' intense periods of fantasy, that Hurt's superb acting conveys to us just how deep Giles' emotions extend. John Hurt adopts vacant facial expressions and daydreamy tones of voice that prove this is more than a crush...
...guys who I think are going to be major contributors are Vail and Huling," Walsh said. "Vail has added the ability to change speeds, he's got some pop on his fastball, and he seems to want it more this year. I think Huling was underutilized last year on the hill...
...instinct was to jump down from my guard chair and pop her across the face, but I knew that doing so would just get me fired. Besides that, and more importantly, it would have gone against what I believe is right. Instead, I had her removed from the pool and sent home. My boss wouldn't let me put her on the "do not allow back in" list, but asked me to write up a report on her, to add to the several others that were already on file...
Some people have managed to conjure up a balance between work and fun--or, worse, to make fun a priority. These are the people who hang out at bars or clubs on weeknight, play pool incessantly in the House basement, listen to pop music and watch reruns on TV. Yet while such choices are ours to make, these people are publicly derided and we all know it. Last semester, in the same space where the "Eight Days a Week" article appeared, The Crimson ran an article on "slackers" at Harvard (News, Oct.24). Despite a remarkably similar subject--surveying unusual students...