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...initiative to write this piece. You might even be surprised that I have the manual dexterity necessary to type, given these grotesquely gnarled nubs I call fingers attached to the ends of my hands. Well, I’ll tell you how. I’ve got a nerd in a headlock typing furiously as I dictate. Well, I shouldn’t say “furiously.” He has plenty of time to catch up while I’m taking regular gulps of the chocolate milk I stole from him at lunch today. Rrrrrrrrrr...
Surrounded by real actors (Tilda Swinton at her most immaculately decadent as the angel Gabriel, pinwheeling Peter Stormare as Satan, Rachel Weisz as The Girl), Reeves holds his own, creating a force field around his watchful entropy. In his early years, he may have been only a nerd's idea of a hip guy. Now, at 40, he has achieved a freon-cool satori, which makes him the perfect, still center of a visually agitated, intellectually restless movie. --By Richard Corliss
...years ago, Hürter says, many of her schoolmates started looking askance at her short hairstyle and nondescript outfits. But last winter, the situation escalated. Two girls in her class began to ridicule and bad-mouth her, saying she looked like a boy and calling her a nerd. They tripped her up, took her pens, and eventually resorted to hiding and damaging her backpack. "I guess it's because I don't wear fashionable clothes," says Hürter, who gained several kilos while the bullying was going on. "It got so bad I didn't want...
...mind, at least, the life of Yan Xuan ’05 has been a study in contradictions. On one hand, he is the son of Chinese immigrants and a self-described “nerd.” On the other hand, Xuan grew up in that bastion of multiculturalism, the American South (Durham, North Carolina to be exact...
...novels there is a host of characters, but four comprise the novel’s main focus: Charlotte Simmons, the naïve and beautiful titular protagonist; Hoyt Thorpe, the self-obsessed fratboy; “Jojo” Johanssen, the gargantuan whitey baller; and Adam Gellin, Nerd...