Word: geeks
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Before computers and pop-culture fetishizing, there was a different breed of geek. Even more loathed and degraded than his modern ancestor, this geek was a literal freak - a sideshow act - a man willing to growl like an animal and bite the heads off chickens for his daily fifth of cheap booze. Along with confidence men, carnies and cops, the geek is just one of the grimy characters of William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1946 novel "Nightmare Alley," now turned into a gripping graphic novel by the veteran comix artist known as Spain...
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Fair enough. Here it goes. From here on out, Harvard is playing for its postseason life. I’m no math whiz, but a cursory look at the geek-tastic Pairwise Rankings, almost always a direct prognosticator of NCAA tournament selection, reveals that the Crimson’s No. 16 standing this late in the season—in a 16-team tournament—has pushed its bubble to the point of bursting...
...PAUL BARMAN. Geek rapper extraordinaire drops knowledge and irony on Cambridge with multisyllabic nerdplay. Thursday, Feb. 13 at 11:15 p.m. Tickets $10. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
Through change, there is continuity. From patrician New Yorker and future U.S. president to Chinese-speaking gay redneck Canadian computer geek to Indian-Muslim-Texan football player dating a Korean to Israeli resident of Newton concentrating in East Asian studies, one thing thankfully remains constant: the Asian fetish...