Word: dudeness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...aura of security. As ineffectual as they are under the light of statistical scrutiny, all of the new security procedures nevertheless succeed at making travelers believe that flights are safe. I mean, what better way to make the average flyer feel like security is tight than for the TSA dude to pat down grandma and make 7 year-olds put their shoes through the metal detectors. If security is this tight for the obviously-innocent, of course they’re gonna catch the terrorists. Right...
Tillman grew up in San Jose, Calif., where his father Pat Sr. is a lawyer and former college wrestler. Like a lot of young Californians, the long-haired Pat Jr. could embody the surfer dude. In fact, dude was one of his favorite words. His other favorite word isn't printable. Cargo shorts, flip-flops and T shirts were his standard outfit. But at Arizona State University, he had the brains to get his marketing degree in 3 1/2 years--and with a 3.84-grade-point average. At school he got into the habit of climbing at night...
...think of Penn as an angry actor. That's not entirely fair, since he was first noticed as a hilariously stoned surfer dude in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And one of his four Oscar nominations was for playing a sweet-souled retarded man in I Am Sam. But he won an Oscar this year for mobilizing an implacably vengeful rage as the father of a murdered girl in Mystic River. Before that, he turned his anger into the rancid sullenness of a tormented guitar player in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown and made us sympathize with an unapologetic...
This week, salacious gossip website (ahh, Gossip Gal drools for thee) Gawker.com reported, among other tidbits, a liasion between a certain hotshot Harvard professor/journalist/cool dude about town and a student whose facebook.com profile straddles the line between provocative and scandalous. Gossip Gal can neither confirm or deny this rumor, but damn...
...felt like calling out, “Hey Mister Robber Dude, did it ever occur to you that maybe I needed my naiveté? Well, uh, I did!” Look: bad things happen to good people, right? Ever since God placed bets on Job, we’ve all accepted that. Or at least we do on an intellectual level. But to survive in the real world from day to day, we also have to suppress our cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair...