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Understand, the idea of Jobs returning to Apple is something akin to that of Luke Skywalker returning to fight what, until last week, cultists regarded as the evil empire. Gates, by comparison, was perceived as a dweeb Darth Vader, the billionaire bad guy who usurped the idea of the Macintosh's friendly point-and-click operating system for his now dominant Microsoft Windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEVE'S JOB: RESTART APPLE | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...Mask he plays Stanley Ipkiss, who puts an ancient mask on his face and is transformed from bank-clerk dweeb to zoot-suited superdude, genially terrorizing Edge City and winning the plushly encased heart of a gun moll (Cameron Diaz). The computer wizards at Industrial Light & Magic help alchemize this ragged film into a megamorphic extravaganza. But Carrey doesn't need any cybernetics or silicon to rubberize his limbs. He is his own best special effect, the first star who is a live-action toon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: World's Only Living Toon | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

...pregnancy. "It's our experience that kids this age really know it's too early to be having sex," says Heather Johnston Nicholson, director of the National Resource Center for Girls Inc., in Indianapolis. "But when you're that age, you don't want to be considered a complete dweeb. We're establishing a peer group that says it's O.K. not to be sexually active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Should We Teach Our Kids about SEX? | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...inability to articulate her discomfort is typical. "There's just something about Clinton," says Thomas, 30, "and as someone disaffected with politics, I'm attracted to an anti- candidate candidate. Maybe it's a rebellion thing. Tsongas seems genuine -- and just because he's a dweeb doesn't mean he can't govern." So Thomas is raising money for Clinton and voting for Tsongas. "That's Chicago," she says. "It's kinda neat, isn't it?" And nutty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest: Onward to the Rust Belt | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

Wayne Campbell, star of Wayne's World, is a mush-minded dweeb whose success prefigures the collapse of civilization . . . Not! (There, we've done our mandatory aping of Wayneglish, that newly epidemic subspecies of English that certifies Wayne as this month's pop-cultural phenom.) Actually, he is a fairly learned dude; his I.Q. could match those of Bill and Ted and still have points % left over for Homer Simpson. Wayne's vocabulary is abundant with synonyms for the verb vomit: hurl, spew, honk. With his Chinese girlfriend he can chat in Cantonese. And only Wayne noticed that two actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Party On, Wayne -- From TV to Movies | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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