Word: flatnesses
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...mean, it’s flat-out now. We say it’s ‘sports entertainment’ so that we don’t insult the audience’s intelligence...
...door, it is immediately apparent that Loker Commons has finally outgrown its awkward phase. Gone are the arbitrary iMacs and math CAs in perplexing hats; they’ve been replaced with leather couches and a bar. The large, handsome space is replete with sturdy booths and flat-screen TVs. Each nooks and cranny has its own peculiar charm. One corner of the room is dedicated to games. Another corner has a small library. Yet another is home to Harvard’s trophy collection. Its walls are adorned with Harvard curios in just the right proportion of nerdiness...
...cast’s biggest limitation was that they lacked the enthusiasm required to hold the audience for the duration of the show. Sniderman was at times emotionally flat, and while Thomas A. Dichter ’08 was often entertaining as the Emcee, he occasionally broke character, such as in the songs “If You Could See Her” and “Two Ladies.” The cast hit all the big numbers, and did them well, but there were times when they lacked energy—and it came across...
Kerry appeared fairly polished during his opening remarks, even garnering a few obligatory chuckles from the crowd when he sardonically wisecracked that there is “a flat-earth caucus in Congress.” Yet while those in attendance were respectful, it was obvious from the tepid applause that the Kerrys garnered for even red meat rhetoric that the audience wasn’t particularly enthused by the issues addressed...
...thing. Never mind the disorder's name, narcissism is a condition defined mostly by disablingly low self-esteem, requiring the sufferer to seek almost constant recognition and reward. When the world and the people in it don't respond as they should, narcissists are not just enraged but flat-out mystified. Cho's multimedia postmortem package exuded narcissistic exhibitionism, and the words he spoke into the camera left no doubt as to what he believed - or wanted to believe - was his own significance. "Thanks to you," he said in one of his many indictments of his victims, "I die like...