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Still, the H-Bomb is usually a powerful weapon...
Welcome to the world of the H-Bomb, fabled weapon of the Harvard male: Tell a girl you go to Harvard, and she’ll fall at your feet. No matter who you were in high school, the myth goes, you’re a hot commodity once you manage to slip where you go to school into casual conversation...
Sophomore middle blocker Kaego Ogbechie, always the primary weapon, posted consecutive strong showings with match-high kill totals (17 against Yale, 20 against Brown) in both contests...
...Trevor Adams (Ben Foster) brings a bomb to high school. The weapon doesn't go off; it's a dummy. But when a drama teacher (Tom Cavanagh) casts Trevor in a play about a school shooting, the campus explodes into paranoia, pushing Trevor to the brink of real violence. Bang Bang is too speech-heavy, and for a movie about the danger of stereotypes, it's rife with them: meathead jocks, insensitive parents, earnest teachers. But Foster makes Trevor searingly real, a bright, eyes-averted loner who so badly wants you to think he doesn't care that you know...
...when Lily spies on her sister making out with another girl in the woods. "I thought only guys could be homos," she thinks, "this is so sick!" Later, when Lily makes the mistake of fooling around with, and then rejecting, the neighborhood loudmouth rumors about her sister become a weapon for him. Without being dramatic about it, "Summer of Love" ends on a note of sisterly solidarity...