Word: kemptness
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...Today we have the summer's last major comedy: Superbad, produced by Apatow and co-written by Rogen. It's about a pudgy, mouthy slob named Seth (Jonah Hill) and his quieter, slightly more kempt buddy Evan (Michael Cera) who want, with variously intense degrees of desperation, to get laid before they graduate from high school. At the end of a night of wacky hijinks, the lads do wind up in a sleeping bag, exchanging intimacies with...each other...
Chester, who pulled an Orson Wells as writer, director, and star of this film, has given America a gay love story for the “Love Actually” crowd. If you like clean, beautiful New York apartments and well-kempt men who look like they just walked out of a Calvin Klein ad, then Chester’s film will entertain you… for a few minutes...
...here rather than in darkest Stuttgart, find themselves on Centre Court and on international TV. Indeed, the tournament's size favors heedless youth. In a draw containing 128 players, the eventual victor must win seven matches in two weeks, some of which are bound to be played on ill-kempt outer courts, some of which are bound to be interrupted by rain or darkness. The physically tireless have the edge in these circumstances. And so do those who can avoid dank brooding on fate's fickleness...
...unlike our hometowns, Cambridge and Boston invite walkers. The brick sidewalks, despite their unfortunate tendency to capture kitten heels, are wide and well-kempt. The walk from Harvard to Central Square reveals an attractive, (slightly) more raffish side of Cambridge; in Boston, walks around the Common and Public Garden are rewarded with views of the golden dome of the Statehouse and of the swan boats...
...actual crimes outrank those of our other offenders, but SADDAM HUSSEIN looks somehow more kempt--especially since he, unlike them, really was pulled from a hole in the ground...