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...series becomes a kind of buddy comic, with Marvin as the wizened vet and Herbert as the comical rookie. Their friendship forms the emotional center of the series, as Marvin gains increasing respect for Herbert, who matures from a 90-lb duckling to self-confident, if somewhat inept, adventurer. This relationship feels genuinely warm, and keeps the series from being just a simple parody, even when some of the gags are as funny as when Herbert and Marvin infiltrate the Hooded Ones' lair disguised as interior decorators, complete with foppish 18th century outfits...
Today, as he faces another public relations crisis, media reports seem to be linking the new Summers to the old one, forging a narrative that deceptively skips over the vast improvements he made to his character at the Treasury. His public image as an insensitive and socially inept bully seems only to have worsened. Over the course of the recent fiasco, he has been described as “sexist,” “abrasive,” and “brutal” on the establishment broadsheets, and the independent blogosphere has been even less forgiving...
After Cornell tied the game at two apiece with 2:35 left in the first period, Harvard strung together six unanswered goals that spoke to a combination of dazzling skill and a weary, inept Big Red back line...
...people when the Vietnam War became something to brag about, but that is missing the point. When all is said and done John Kerry went to Vietnam, and his experience has provided enough biographical ammunition, if wielded capably, to deflect most any charges that he is weak, inept or inexperienced...
...said that the indubitably real Charlie, who has also written quirky successes including Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is in fact “extremely shy”—but said he was not quite the self-doubting, self-loathing and socially inept character played by Cage in Adaptation...