Word: inept
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While I will admit that many students at this school are socially inept, of whom I appear to have dated a fair share, this ineptness does not stop at the hallowed doors of our fair gentlemen's clubs. I find it hard to believe that a fellow who purchases friendships based on shared monetary privilege, which in my experience is not an exaggeration, would choose to call other people dorks. These dorks are not the ones who stock their clubs with drunk girls at a four-to-one ratio in order to secure a chance at scoring...
...Fargo--three men's plan to keep an unclaimed $4 million goes awry and spirals into horror. But director Sam Raimi lets the actor's performances do the talking. Bill Paxton gives the film its dramatic electricity. Billy Bob Thornton continues to amaze, this time as Paxton's socially-inept brother who finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into evils he can't even understand. A rich, devastating tale of greed...
...basically do anything; all that is required is a consistent, believable interpretation (like Thandie Newton's remarkable performance in the recent Beloved). Unfortunately, Pitt isn't a natural comedian, he doesn't have much range, and he has problems creating a coherent character. One moment Joe is ridiculously inept; the next an almighty deity. For example, he comes to Earth having no idea what peanut butter is--he literally probes the jar for minutes and waxes poetic over the gooey sweetness. Later in the movie, however, he offers his own perspective on the IRS and denounces a fellow character...
...left in a box with a book and would have ended up self-taught. You did, however, confirm my belief that most teachers are only capable of imparting information to ready-made A and B students. Of course, there are a few good teachers, but they cannot overcome the inept system we have. After nine years of watching my dyslexic son feel dumber and dumber, I am taking him out of a system of neglect and home-schooling him. DEBORAH CURTIN Long Beach...
...with any good marine fiction, the sea itself is background, scene shifter and, from time to storm-lashed time, main character. But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies...