Word: cleverisms
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...year-old Adam said ‘fuck’ to another little boy when, during a playdate, the other child threw a Nerf ball over Adam’s head. The boy’s mother, in earshot, was not pleased. Their favorite teddy bears, which the clever children have both named ‘Cow,’ were gifts from me that I picked up at the Coop the day they were born and brought home during a break. Their favorite computer game—a Sesame Street production starring Elmo—was introduced to them...
...Alala” Dir. Cat Solen Cute! Hip! Irreverent! Mildly clever! Vaguely obscure! And Brazilian! That pretty much sums up all of the hype surrounding hipster-in-a-can band CSS, which stands for “Cansei de Ser Sexy.” That’s right—not just tirelessly sexy, but tired of being sexy. And for good reason—their image is so perfectly contrived for the moment that it must be exhausting to keep up. Everything about them just begs for awkward worship from awkward fans. Doll-faced half-Japanese poster-girl...
...very least, it seems that being an English concentrator can allow you to sound clever when you really don’t have a clue...
...more sensitive Ferrell in a script that plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite: that should send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...
...whole Breakfast at Tiffany’s thing is so overdone—so one clever Quincyite dressed up as Harvard’s own celebutante, Erica S. Birmingham ’06, for Quincy Golf. Birmingham was psyched to hear that her legend lives on, and sent us a pic of her Halloween costume as a busty St. Pauli lass. At the Signet on Friday night, a certain Hasty Pudding Theatricals producer waved to a friend...inadvertently whacking a Signette in the eye. 20 minutes of tears and condolences ensued. Earlier that night, the same...