Word: wimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BEEN an almost Diogenesian task of late to find a Reagan backer on campus who can rationalize support for the President with arguments that: (1) do not smugly dismiss Walter F. Mondale as a "wimp"; (2) are more sophisticated than "I want a job;" and (3) do not include the words "optimism," "patriotism," "Olympics," "standing tall," or--and this is the killer--"What difference does it make...
...anti-intellectual nature of support for the President among voters aged 18-24 is a result of the fact that our generation is the first to live and die by the media eye. We are the first generation raised entirely in a culture that reacts more strongly to "wimp," "loser," and "macho" than to substantive policy discussions, that bases its decisions and learns the news in media bites rather than in in-depth studies, and that is more concerned with style and image than any generation before...
...their main characters. Body Double presents a familiar De Palma loner: a pleasant enough wimp who becomes fascinated, then sexually obsessed, with a faraway female figure. This time the wimp is Jack, a movie actor (Craig Wasson), and the love object is a wealthy young woman (Deborah Shelton) with a body as taut and talented as a porn star's. Too soon, Jack finds he must share the fantasy. Another man is watching, one who has more violent designs on the woman: murder by a power drill that moves toward her and through her like the phallus of death...
ANSWERS: actor, Bill Murray; facial expression, plastered; the films, Stripes, Ghostbusters. Drama? Comedy? Pick either; if Razor's Edge tells us anything, it's not to indulge in such theoretical musings; were a reincarnated William Shakespeare to cast Murray as King Lear, no doubt every wimp's favorite drillmaster could deadpan even the death scene...
...Real Men Don't Eat Quiche Virility Award: to another Weld/Wigglesworth Grays hardass who says. "We don't need a wimp who will sit back as our interests are being shelved. I will make sure our points get across...