Oscy pursues Miriam, eventually making out with her during the movie, and later learns her ways are well-known on the island.

Hermie finds himself succeeding with Aggie, who allows him to grope what he thinks is her breast ; Oscy later points out Hermie was fondling her arm.

All of them are virgins: Oscy is obsessed with the act of sex, while Hermie finds himself developing romantic interest in the bride, whose husband he spots leaving the island on a water taxi one morning.

Oscy, in an uncharacteristic act of sensitivity, lets Hermie be by himself, departing with the words, " Sometimes life is one big pain in the ass.

During the course of writing the screenplay, Raucher came to the realization that despite growing up with Oscy and having bonded with him through their formative years, the two had never really had any meaningful conversations or gotten to know one another on a more personal level.

Hermie and Oscy spend the entirety of the evening's film attempting to " put the moves " on Miriam and Aggie.

That night, Hermie roasts marshmallows with Aggie while Oscy succeeds in having sex with Miriam between the dunes.

Confused as to what's happening, Aggie follows Oscy back, where she sees him having sex with Miriam and runs home, upset.

At dawn Hermie meets Oscy and the two share a moment of reconciliation, with Oscy informing Hermie that Miriam will recover.

The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O ' Neill as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce.

The film flashes back to a day that then 15-year-old " Hermie " ( Gary Grimes ) and his friends – jock Oscy ( Jerry Houser ) and introverted nerd Benjie ( Oliver Conant ) – spent playing on the beach.

Meanwhile, Oscy and Hermie, thanks to a sex manual discovered by Benjie, become convinced they know everything necessary to lose their virginity.

Frightened by the immediacy of sex, Benjie runs off, and is not seen by Hermie or Oscy again that night.

An elated Hermie goes home and puts on a suit, dress shirt and heads back to Dorothy's house, running into Oscy on the way ; Oscy relates that Miriam's appendix burst and she's been rushed to the mainland.

Hermie, convinced he is at the brink of adulthood because of his relationship with Dorothy, brushes Oscy off.

Originally, the film was meant to be a tribute to his friend Oscar " Oscy " Seltzer, an Army medic killed in the Korean War.

Led by Oscy, they test this by going to the cinema and picking-up a trio of high-school girls.

During the day, he scavenges for supplies and methodically searches out the inactive vampires, driving stakes into their hearts to kill them.

While Chick Harbert who was playing with Snead thought the ball was out of bounds, a rules official ruled differently due to the starter not telling players the stakes had been moved since the previous day's play had ended.

The padres blessed the site, and with the aid of their military escort fashioned temporary shelters out of tree limbs or driven stakes, roofed with thatch or reeds ( cañas ).

He follows Geiger home, stakes out his house, and sees Carmen Sternwood enter.

Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Joe Brody ’ s home.

They additionally receive one stake from the second person out, two stakes from the third person, and so on.

The two extreme views on terraforming are personified by Saxifrage " Sax " Russell, who believes their very presence on the planet means some level of terraforming has already begun and that it is humanity's obligation to spread life as it is the most scarce thing in the known universe, and Ann Clayborne, who stakes out the position that humankind does not have the right to change entire planets at their will.

The advantages of the dealer arise in many ways, but mainly from the temptations held out by the rules of the game to induce adventurous players to increase their stakes on certain desperate chances, which rarely turn up, and which in the long run told largely in favour of the bank.

Referring to the rapidly increasing worldwide integration and interdependence of societies and cultures, Ritzer ’ s aforementioned The Globalization of Nothing ( 2004 / 2007 ) stakes out a provocative perspective in the on-going and voluminous globalization discourse.

b ) the more pure and raging spontaneity of no thing consciousness, of being instantaneously free to overturn one's roles, pull up stakes, and strike out new paths.

Carlton and Granada gradually bought out the two stakes and renamed the channel the ITV News Channel.

Blood-Horse magazine's Steven Haskin wrote: " Pimlico stakes coordinator David Rollinson had to go out and recruit Preakness Stakes horses when it looked like only six or seven were going to run.

Initially, the center poles are raised and guyed out to stakes after which the tent is spread out and connected to the bail ring using shackles.

Often in a thriller the protagonist is faced with what seem to be insurmountable problems in his mission, carried out against a ticking clock, the stakes are high and although resourceful they face personal dilemmas along the way forcing them to make sacrifices for others.

To catch the new burglar Robie stakes out an estate at night and finds himself struggling with an attacker who loses his footing and tumbles over a cliff.

The first aircraft built was a Harlow PC-5 On 2 April 1942, the government announced that the company had been nationalised when it had bought out the stakes of Walchand Hirachand and other promoters so that it could act freely.

In its final form, brought out by Foreman's own Ned Ludd Books ( suitably named after the nineteenth-century British worker who destroyed supposedly labor-saving machinery ), Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching gave practical, detailed instructions on how to decommission bulldozers, pull out survey stakes, spike trees, and generally harass and delay resource industry plans.

The whole of the pot ( the stakes on all competitors ) is divided pro-rata to the stakes placed on the winning competitor and those tickets are paid out.

The game is over once one side either " stakes out " ( thus scoring 32 points ) or after ten innings expire.

Schwab became notorious for his " fast lane " lifestyle including opulent parties, high stakes gambling, and a string of extramarital affairs producing at least one child out of wedlock.

La Forge uses his phaser to melt fragments into stakes, which he employs to climb out of the hole.

At the fishing village located at present-day Comox, the Pentlatch set out elaborate fishing weirs — nets on tidal flats tied to wooden stakes that would be covered at high tide but uncovered at low tide, allowing trapped fish to be removed.

While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

The most common error is to " throw good money after bad " and make high stakes calls because he or she thinks the other player is bluffing.

The Labour Charter of 1927, promulgated by the Grand Council of Fascism, stated in article 7: " The corporative State considers private initiative, in the field of production, as the most efficient and useful instrument of the Nation ", then continued in article 9: " State intervention in economic production may take place only where private initiative is lacking or is insufficient, or when are at stakes the political interest of the State.

Free-riding is most likely to occur in large, anonymous groups, in one-off interactions, and when the stakes are high.

One of the most prominent of the financial barons Boris Berezovsky, who controlled major stakes in several banks and companies, exerted an extensive influence over state television programming for a while.

Although aggressive encounters are ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, with often high stakes, most are resolved through posturing, displays and trials of strength.

Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other " bad behaviour " by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes.

The most significant races are categorised as Group races or Graded stakes races.

Open stakes are most commonly found in home or private games.

Staunton later blamed Morphy for the failure to have a match, suggesting among other things that Morphy lacked the funds required for match stakes — a most unlikely charge given Morphy's popularity.

According to Oregon Geographic Names, the origins of the county's name are uncertain, with the most likely explanation being that it is derived from the Nez Perce term for a structure of stakes ( a weir ) used in fishing.

Most recently, fields using inflatable bunkers, tethered to the ground with stakes, have become standard for most tournament formats ; the soft, yielding bunkers reduce the occurrence of injuries, the bunkers deflate to store in a compact space and anchor to the ground with tent stakes, allowing for temporary fields to be set up and torn down with less impact on the ground underneath, and the arrangement of bunkers can be easily re-configured to maintain novelty of play or to simulate a predetermined field layout for an upcoming event.

Perhaps the most celebrated example of this occurred on 17 November 1558 when several Protestant heretics were tied to their stakes in Smithfield, and the firewood bundles were about to be lit when a royal messenger rode up to announce that Queen Mary had died and that the warrants had lost their force.

At the World's Fair Handicap ( Bay Meadows ' most prestigious stakes race ), Seabiscuit led throughout.

In 2006, the top three countries receiving the most venture capital investments were the United Kingdom ( 515 minority stakes sold for € 1. 78 billion ), France ( 195 deals worth € 875 million ), and Germany ( 207 deals worth € 428 million ) according to data gathered by Library House.

The stakes were so high, in that the tapes most likely contained evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the President and his men, that they wanted no dissent.

In essence, hedgelaying consists of cutting most of the way through the stem of each plant near the base, bending it over and interweaving or pleaching it between wooden stakes.

* The most points that can be scored by one side in a game is 32: 16 points per ball ( 14 points for the arches and 2 points for the stakes ).

Affirmed won easily, setting the stakes record in California's most important stakes race which still stands as of 2008.

Due to purchases, mergers and other forms of consolidation in the 1980s and 1990s, at one time or another, it had ownership stakes in or syndication rights to some of the most famous brands in network radio, including CBS, NBC, Mutual, CNN, Fox and Unistar.

Specifically these reforms include allowing foreign investors to hold majority stakes in most enterprises excluding " strategic " industries such as banking, telecommunications, and energy, easing insurance regulation, curtailing powers of the Foreign Investment Committee and lowering the minimum quota for Malay ownership in publicly traded companies from 30 percent to 12. 5 percent.

Prior to the incorporation of Temasek Holdings, most of these stakes were held by the Ministry of Finance.