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...ahead, make my day"--was uneasily balanced by a moral Puritanism that helped cement a post-Dixie South into his coalition. Clinton tried to make himself look hip. But he always seemed suppliant to Hollywood, as if he were trying to be cool by association, never quite escaping the nerd from Arkansas within. Arnold, in contrast, is a complete creature of the pop culture, aware of its internal contradictions and happy to play with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pumping Irony | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...colleagues and resolves to kill them all--is really about the motion, the emotion, the very movieness of movies. Released in two parts, like many a Shaw Bros. thriller of Hong Kong's golden past, Kill Bill is an effusion of movie love by the prime nerd-curator and hip creator of cult action films. Kill Bill is his thank-you note to the Hong Kong kung-fu epics, Japan's yakuza gangster dramas and '70s Italian westerns and horror films that shaped his sensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: And Now...Pulp Friction | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...that brings me to the number one life-affecting conclusion I’ve arrived at since I flew across the sea. The world is right. I’m a nerd...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Greener Pastures | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...flight instructor suggested an airplane that McCollum hadn't even heard of. One demonstration flight later, she was hooked on a Cirrus SR22, a sleek and powerful four-seater whose designers are trying to reinvent the small plane, not to mention the small-plane industry. "I'm a techno-nerd," says McCollum, "and when I saw those two computer screens in the cockpit where there usually are a bunch of round gauges, I immediately felt at ease with all that info. It's like having your laptop to help fly a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Blue Sky For Cirrus | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...boned women." Fearless Jones, it turns out, is Paris' best friend and polar opposite: superhumanly strong, infernally lucky, ridiculously handsome and very, very good at beating people up. You might say Paris plays Watson to Fearless's Sherlock Holmes, if Holmes had been a jock instead of a nerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer... | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

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