Word: studious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheltered, studious Los Angeles tomboy, diminutive (5 ft.) Jodie had little empathy for the role. Her previous parts in movies and TV, notably Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer, had been more conventional. "For me it was just a part," says Jodie. "I never feel like the people I'm playing." That may help to explain why her performance escapes the usual prostitute stereotypes. Jodie, however, gives credit to Director Martin Scorsese. Says she: "Before, I would never listen to the directors-they always wanted you to act the same way. But with Marty I saw acting as something creative...
...collection of the original issues of Marvel Comics, Son of Origins, Lee describes Spiderman's creation: "we recklessly flew in the face of all established tradition and dared to create a hero out of a shy studious, insecure, mollycoddled momma's boy." As Lee puts it, "He's the Woody Allen of the superheroes...
...transformation of middle-class youngsters into terrorists baffles and unsettles many parents, who almost uniformly describe their children as having been wellrounded, industrious and studious until they went off to college and became captured by drugs and radicalism. Typically, Steve Soliah and his sisters were regarded by their father Martin, a high school English teacher in Palmdale, Calif., as "good right-wing Republicans who got up every morning and pledged allegiance to the flag." Steve was a crew-cut football hero in high school. Kathleen was a church youth leader and an energetic pep squad member. And Josephine once wanted...
...Quad called "Wimps, Twerps, and Nerds." Everyone knows people at the Quad who don't fit into these categories at all, but somehow the popular image lingers on. The fact that the Quad is, on the whole, quieter than the Yard or the River Houses supports the conception of studious unsociable types who are supposed to live at the 'Cliffe, and keeps Yard freshmen from really giving the Quad a fair trial. But freshmen who live in the Quad are assigned there by random selection this year--there has been absolutely no attempt to put quieter people at the Quad...
...through it as a way to get dates (hence the appellation, now rarely heard, "Meatbook"). There are those who feel that asking people out on the basis of their photograph, hometown and field of concentration shows an insensitivity to local mores and customs, but the fact remains that some studious men at Harvard never need to be introduced to a woman in their class...