Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state. They smoke cigars and wear King/O'Neill buttons. They ask you who are you going to vote for and tell a reporter she looks like her Daddy has a lot of money. They don't like Frank Hatch because he is rich and he looks like a wimp. Massachusetts will be like Miss Porter's if Hatch gets his hands on it, they think...
...cast is large and talented. Thomas Hulce (the class "wimp"), Stephen Furst (the class "blimp"), James Daughton (a BMOC of ambiguous sexuality) and Karen Allen (as the sexiest of the animals' girls) are much more subtle performers than the material demands. Donald Sutherland, playing Faber's obligatory pot-smoking English prof, and Verna Bloom, as the dean's alcoholic wife, score some wicked points against the postgraduate generation...
...friend of mine never ceases to be amazed when she hears Elvis Costello sing because "how could such good music come from such a wimpy-looking guy?" You too can go ponder that question at the Orpheum tonight at 7:30, because "The Other Elvis" will be there playing wimp rock, along with Mink de Ville and Nick Lowe. Tickets are $6.50 or $7.50, with a $2 discount if you can prove you are an Afghanistanian citizen. Seems this is "Be Kind to Central Asians week...
...There are a lot of people waiting to take advantage of you. So when someone shoots you down, you can either take it like a wimp or learn to fight back and take care of yourself and earn your respect that way," he says...
...sensitivity, the motifs are at times carried out in a clumsy fashion. Short Eyes's mea culpa about his perverse affinity for young girls is riddled with cliches, and Davison's acting in the title role approaches the pedestrian throughout the narrative, making the character look like just another wimp with a kinky habit...