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...media types watching in the press room at Dartmouth were, to use the appropriate technical term, totally grossed out by it. Whenever Gore came on too strong, the room erupted in a collective jeer, like a gang of 15-year-old Heathers cutting down some hapless nerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Please Don't Leave Me, Don't You Go | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...Bold, elite haze 2) Damp old runt 3) Sod! I'm rum nerd 4) Legal bits 5) Postulate huge ignorance 6) Oh my God! I rail up urinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook Placemat: GROW YOUR BRAIN! TEST YOUR SKILLS! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...fuck" a lot in front of reporters. The idea, apparently, is to jar us all by how little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably down," he told Tucker Carlson of Talk magazine over the summer. Let a lesser man memorize statistics...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, | Title: 'The Body' Politic | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...moved from middle school to high school, however, I noticed that expectations for my summer plans increased. It started with my summer at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, a summer I still refer to as "nerd camp...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Lazy Days Are No More | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Here is a standard time-travel movie, tarted up with a lot of virtual-reality twaddle. Shuttling back and forth between the present and a distinctly low-rent version of Los Angeles in 1937, a techno-nerd (Craig Bierko) must consider the possibility that he murdered his mentor-boss (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and doesn't remember doing so. While he creates an agreeably menacing atmosphere, Rusnak never makes us care particularly about anyone. One finds oneself praying for a wowing special-effects sequence. Or anything else that would jolt this movie out of its inconsequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Thirteenth Floor | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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