19 July 2014

Supple and imaginative

Those Glory Glory Days

(1983)
We've seen sports-obsessive boys agonizing over tickets to the big game many times, and the main thing that's different about this girls' take on the theme is that it foregrounds the innocent, oblivious sexuality at play, which makes me wonder whether we'd find the same tingle in the boy-crushes in those stories if only we thought to look for them.

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