Word: shoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time on frills; moves at full-speed with the full intention of causing a crash finish. Wisely, the filmmakers have stayed faithful to Perrotta's novel. After all, the storyline sets itself up for director Payne's satiric touch. At Carver High School, Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) is the shoo-in for Student Council President. After all, everyone is afraid--terrified--to run against her. She's the ultimate overachiever--member of every club, top 10 of her class, etc. etc. But she's an overachieving overachiever--she sets up a booth just to get nomination signatures...
...make no mistake: against Giuliani, she would be in for a bruising fight. Sources say Ickes has warned her to gird for the battle of her life. "This is not a shoo-in," admits an adviser. Giuliani and his surrogates would try to make an issue of her carpetbagging and question her commitment to fixing potholes in Syracuse. As much as she will energize Democratic loyalists, her candidacy would mobilize the right, become fodder for G.O.P. direct-mail fund raising and unite New York's upstate conservatives--good news for Giuliani, who has never recovered their good graces since endorsing...
...FIRST VISIT TO THE RESTROOM, I stare Kong culture dead in the eye. The vomit looks a brown, orange color-like vegetable moo shoo gai pan splattered on the toilet and hanging on the stall walls. The smell cripples me and I feel a spasm contract my stomach. I close my eyes, hold my breath and aim my stream of kidney-processed Budweiser into the puke lagoon. The guy facing the urinal turns his head to caution his buddy entering the restroom, "Watch out, somebody zooped in here!" I've never heard of zooping before, but I sure as hell...
...implications of Harvard's actions with respect to Janowski go further than wins and losses. Janowski undoubtedly deserves a spot on the All-Ivy First Team, but because of the politicking involved in the voting and the attention paid to final team standings, she is not a shoo...
...trendy and capricious L.A. high-school, She's All That is a fairy tale about the undoing of the golden age of senior class president, honor student and captain to the soccer team, Zack Siler (Freddie Prinze, Jr.). His status is threatened when his prom queen shoo-in girlfriend (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) returns from spring break with a tattoo and a new boyfriend, in the form of a Brock Hudson, played by Matthew Lillard to stunning heights of distaste. Best friend and rival Dean (Paul Walker) sees this as his opportunity to be the new alpha male and ribs...