Word: nerd
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...with Paul's newly separated mom (Jill Eikenberry). This does not send the boy into an Oedipal frenzy, but it makes him wary when John invites him to his lab to play with a laser. The physicist has underestimated Paul, who is cannily played not as a weirdo science nerd but as a youth who likes to keep his brainpower to himself out of normal adolescent secretiveness...
Where's Herb? Who knows, but Burger King's white-socked, balding nerd cannot be found taking any bows in the Alabama senate. Last week that august body passed a resolution denouncing Burger King for "consumer fraud" in its Where's Herb? contest...
...advertisement hints at the conflict at the center of this mostly realistic, teen comedy-drama. Lucas (Corey Haim) is an intelligent, sensitive kid with deficient social skills. In short, he's a nerd...
...that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't that it was so far away, or even that it wasn't as beautiful as the Yard dorms; it was that the dorm was star--studded with academic hotshots. It had a reputation of being the nerd dorm that year, and the reputation was true. Maybe the fact that everyone else around me was studying so hard (or wonking out, as you'll learn to call it) helped perpetuate my compulsive studying. At the end of freshman year, 71 of my 1600 classmates and I were nominated...
...school I felt like a real nerd, the skinny, acne-faced wimp who gets picked on by big football jocks all the way home from school. I was always running to hide in my bedroom, where I felt safe. I would actually call out, "Safe" to myself. When I was about 13, one local bully gave me nothing but grief all year long. He would knock me down on the grass, or hold my head in the drinking fountain, or push my face in the dirt and give me bloody noses when we had to play football in phys...