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...arrogance,” her assertiveness “bossiness.” One article called her “a steely-eyed, tart-tongued control-freak executive brought low by hubris.” Another described her as “an uppity, pain-in-the-neck genius.” A letter to the editor in USA Today summed up this attitude perfectly: “It is that smug, arrogant, ‘I’m-above-all-of-you’ attitude that would make a jail sentence all the sweeter for us, the little...
...stylish uber-liberal (I’m a member!), the boring moderates, the frightening ultra-cons and the slacker apathetics, you begin to notice some people who really don’t belong. There are people I know who are certainly conservative, who have droned on about the genius of Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 and the glories of free trade and the many successes of President Bush’s War on Terror, labeling themselves as “Moderate” and including the ubiquitous beer bottle in their profile picture...
...stories have some highlights of their own. The superficiality of the Bergdorf blondes is most aptly depicted in a scene at a book club meeting when one Bergdorf blonde musters up the courage to ask “You know that book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Do you know if Dave Eggers, the author, is, like, single still...
...weigh in on the matter with articles surfacing as far away as India and Australia. The Guardian, a major newspaper in London, wrote: “A pair of women students have delivered a frisson to the fusty realms of Harvard, an institution previously associated with gawky teenage genius and the American establishment.” Despite the fact that H Bomb is currently just the whimsical proposal of two college students—who happen to go to Harvard—the media seems to find these two girls’ daydream to be worthy of ample space...
Most Pretentious Violence: Say you’re an aging boy genius who hasn’t made a film in years and whose relevance is fading fast. You’re incredibly arrogant and generally unpleasant; you’re also completely out of ideas for your next project. If you’re Quentin Tarantino, the solution is simple: more bloodshed. With war and terrorism dominating the news, 2003 seemed as appropriate a year as ever to degrade human life in a barrage of violence so unrelenting that even Hannibal Lecter might have wanted to put down...