Word: geek
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Deep bonds are forged. Prejudice is fought (the town, which has always treated McLeod as a geek, mistakes pedagogy for pederasty). Wounds are finally healed. And the sentimentally impressionable will have a good cry as outcasts assert their humanity and teach the smug and the hypocritical a thing or two about simple decency...
...smart--it wasn't cool to be too smart. So even though I knew all the answers on the math tests, I'd get one wrong on purpose. Just so I'd get a "97" instead of an "100." Just so I wouldn't look like a total geek...
...privileges of being a senior that one can perform such outrageous acts in public and be labelled eccentric instead of a geek...
...wanders among his glammy new best friends, an invisible all-access backstage pass dangling from his neck, Bill Clinton is not squandering his populist image. Rather, he's showing himself to be too much a man of the people, reverting to white-trash form, one more grinning geek queuing up at Graceland. "Back when I saw him at ((a fund raiser at producer)) Ted Field's house," says a politically active movie $ star, "with his mouth open, star struck, I said, 'Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus.' I think he likes people. And I think he genuinely likes famous people...
...Rosenfeld, the alleged MODsters and their ilk do not fit the standard image of a hacker: the wealthy, suburban geek who trespasses on computers just for fun. These cyberpunks are ethnically mixed (from blacks and Hispanics to Italians and Lithuanians), favor close-cropped hip-hop haircuts and live in urban, blue-collar neighborhoods. They fight rival gangs with cheap computers, not sticks or knives. Some are big drug users; most are simply addicted to what Rosenfeld calls the "adrenaline rush of computer power, which is better than sex, drugs or rock 'n' roll...