Word: geeking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer whiz (played by the same young, geeky actor in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and other assorted teen fantasies) breaks into a secret Pentagon computer and almost sets off World War III. This cinematic experience ends with a glorification of individual creativity--in the person of the computer geek and his loyal heroine (played by Ally Sheedy)--and a condemnation of technology gone wild--played by a renegade computer charmingly named Joshua...
...three-year-old starts hip-hopping urgently from foot to foot, and you know what that means. In the men's room there is no toilet paper. When Daddy asks for some, the woman at the customer-service desk eyes him as if he were just the sort of geek to jam the roll down the toilet, flush twice and drown everybody in the store. The toilet, it turns out, does not flush well anyway. Also there's no soap, and the sink has one of those faucets you have to keep pushing down, so there's not much water...
...They are individuals with dreams and aspirations similar to our own. So the next time a fellow student tells you their concentration, show interest, whether they are in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics or sciences. Who knows, you may learn something from them--or even become friends with a "geek...
...local political columnist sarcastically calls him "Michael the Good." Many of his supporters refer to him as "the Duke." If it weren't so shocking it would be almost funny--that this short, homely, boring, geek of a governor named Michael Stanley Dukakis is the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
Still, Bright Center was nearly packed. And, yet, a displaced geek from Lamont Library might have felt right at home within its cool confines. Bright Center was as silent as the aftermath of a terrible joke...