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...Moore freshman year and he is quiet, but he’s really funny when he says something,” Lederman says. “It’s that novelty because he’s actually really a funny guy when he comes up with a joke...
Last year, the Tigers were a punchline. This year, the joke could be on everyone else. Princeton has all the earmarks of a team that could surprise. Its top eight scorers are back. It has a competitive, six-man freshman class. And, most importantly, it is coming off a season in which it was too often a hard-luck loser. The Tigers were tied 14 times after two periods last year, and went 0-13-1 in those games. Throw on a few more logs—nine one-goal losses, and a disappointing three wins overall?...
...with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Mambo Italiano is a mess. Where sexual orientation, ethnic and family issues should be addressed seriously, another joke is made to relieve the tension. The idea of a gay Italian-French-Canadian has a lot of comic potential; in the end, unfortunately, the director is too overwhelmed to stop making jokes and tell what could have been a winning story...
Caro warmed up the crowd with a joke and by confessing that “I’m always more comfortable sitting at a typewriter at my desk than I am at a lecture like this...
While most kids seem to take the code as merely an inside joke, some schools like Fort McCoy in Marion County, Fla., have banned the bracelets. "It's a hot-button topic here," says school-board member Sue Mosley, who has heard complaints from parents at middle schools. Some kids defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...