Word: nerd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Violence is on TV and in the movies; does it really have to be in the mouths of babes" Kids compete in academic, athletic and social environments; does competition need to extend to the candy counter? Does an overly-sensitive tongue really make you a nerd...
...There's a real fad out there with theraspberry flavor and color," he said. "This istaking a Nerd concept and putting raspberry rightin the middle...
...nerd-meets-girl, nerd-gets-girl story, laced throughout with sex, sex, sex. But no skin flick here. Just innuendo and a good-taste-be-damned-scene staged inside a woman's vagina. Plenty of condoms, plenty of high school bullies and ever-short-skirted cheer-leaders, and of course, a girls' locker room shower scene...
Ever since that summer at nerd camp, my taste buds and stomach have been on a quest to re-experience a near-perfectly balanced meal of vegetable, meat and starch in one dish. Specifically, my mission has been to discover and then savor the Platonic form of shepherd's pieness...
...pattern of abuse is a distinctive variation on the nerd bashing that almost all bright, ambitious students -- no matter what their color -- face at some point in their young lives. The anti-achievement ethic championed by some black youngsters declares formal education useless; those who disagree and study hard face isolation, scorn and violence. While educators have recognized the existence of an anti-achievement culture for at least a decade, it has only recently emerged as a dominant theme among the troubles facing urban schools...