Word: geek
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...entrepreneurial skills on the part of my parents, let alone more brake pads than we could afford. I could be the fearless leader of a campus abstinence movement, but I doubted anyone would care that I wasn’t having sex. I could audition for Beauty and the Geek, but I was neither beautiful enough to be a beauty nor geeky enough to be a geek. So much for national fame; I couldn’t even make it onto FM’s Fifteen Hottest Freshmen list. As unique as I made myself seem in my college admissions...
2/14/07: Nathan J. Dern ’07 and recent graduate Alan D. “Scooter” Zackheim ’06 face off in “Beauty and the Geek.” Dern turns down the prize; across Cambridge, hearts flutter...
...world is used to Tarantino's stuff, and most of the time can't get enough of it. (Now he's working on a World War II epic.) But in the back of his head is the grudging ambition of the outsider, the movie geek, the 45-year-old fanboy. He still feels defiantly out-of-step; while every other director is going digital, Tarantino says, "I go backwards. It's lower-lower-lower tech for me." More than once today, he confided what he once felt and may still feel: "They don't let people like me make movies...
...smart, wily and manic as ever, but now he's a man with a mission: to dismantle his own company. Which doesn't thrill his longtime, avuncular, head-shaved partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges). No matter: Tony has never taken "Don't" for an answer. Like a geek in a Silicon Valley garage, a knight smithing his own armor, Tony retreats to his workroom to build himself a new casing. And he won't make Dr. Frankenstein's mistake of using shoddy materials. This will be no stitched-together, run-amok creature. It can't be Tony's ruin...
...fact, Rahn and DeBergalis didn’t meet at a political rally or a campaign event, but at “geek camp” when they attended the Research Summer Institute (RSI) at MIT in the summer before their senior years of high school. The year was 1994, a full decade before they founded ActBlue...