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...sentiment in such a tedious way that it fails to say anything new. These days, the celebrities-are-fake angle isn’t exactly revolutionary. Furthermore, the film’s attempts to add sophistication to this observation by intellectualizing its protagonist—Sidney’s dad surfaces midway through to offhandedly reveal that his son has a philosophy degree—come off as pathetic and clumsy as Sidney’s attempts to pick up women. Weide, the Emmy-winning producer and director of HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm...
...It’s possible it’s genetic: my dad has yet to master the email. Or maybe being raised by a psychoanalyst doubling as a mother ingrained in me certain over-analytical idiosyncrasies like this one. The daunting task of something that should be “easy” becomes a challenge you can’t mess up. The possibility that I might be known as “four wheels” to those in the below five foot club became a threat to my very existence as an over-achieving and successful child...
...decades, says Scher, "young people here grew up thinking this state was always flush, always on the upswing. Now there's a sense that something is burning here." Moller says he's seeing more Florida college seniors moving toward the Democrats as a result. "I feel like my dad did when he graduated in 1976," during another period of economic malaise, he says. "We feel fairly sure we won't be able to get a job out of college...
...Lambert, a native of Cumberland, Maine, has been sailing since the age of nine. “My dad kind of forced me because he loves to sail, and I hated it at first,” she said. “But now I love...
...question I faced was how do I take a clunky $200,000 machine that isn’t very portable and make it into a small, portable, low-cost device,” Ranganathan said. “I got started down this road as a result of my dad, who is in the pharmaceutical industry,” Ranganathan continued. “I’ve always been interested in health care, and I thought briefly about whether I wanted to be a career academic, but I found that it wasn’t a good...