Word: laming
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Jenkins mused about everything from the state of his band to American politics, his speech peppered with profanity and words like “dude,” “rad,” and “lame,” belying his longtime California residence...
What Harvard Would Probs Do: Lame Idea #1: Let yet another not 24-hour fast-food chain buy up the space; (everyone loves McDonalds)! Lame Idea #2: Put a few beds in it and call it overflow housing for upperclassmen. Lame Idea #3: Store books there to make up for the lack of libraries on campus. Lame Idea #4: Make more “freshmen-friendly” spaces so freshmen will have more friends. Lame Idea #5: Use extra endowment money to build nuclear bombs for fun there, rather than dealing with trivial matters like financial aid. What Harvard...
...courtship (cute), their work (she sells art, he runs a publishing firm), the houses they've inhabited (confusingly many), some nice family outings to the beach, a cat they once owned. Hurry, sunrise. When the momentous, life-altering revelation finally comes, the real surprise is that it's pretty lame. Sixteen-year-olds see scarier stuff at the Cineplex, and you can find far more disruptive and entertaining traumas - flood, fire, financial ruin, murder, rape, penury - in Swift's previous novels. And yet, despite its frustrating lack of world-class tragedy, there is something doggedly compelling about Tomorrow. Even when...
...depth and complexity, Kasdan’s characters are nothing more than stereotypical.The lines he created for Ryan and Stewart are stilted and, at times, even laughable. After Ryan asks Stewart to take Brody to a movie to cure his loneliness, Stewart replies, “That is so lame. That is, like, the definition of lame.” Does Kasdan know anything about living, breathing teenage girls, or has he just read excerpts from “The Baby-sitter’s Club”?—Staff writer Erin A. May can be reached...
...able to give the character some dignity. Seth Cohen was a guy who had no friends, but it was almost as much his choice as the Newport Beach water-polo players'." In other words, he's the first nerd to tell the cool kids that giving noogies is lame...