Word: nerdishly
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...four-eyes lives on campus, he's refined his apparatus to the point that he needn't leave his room because nobody's seen him yet. In fact, a historical survey of Harvard inventors proves that practicality and an urge to make a buck have long quashed students' nerdish creative impulses...
...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...
...theater at these bistros and boites. It's the latest, cheeriest and, for the consumer, most economical show-biz trend: Silly Cabaret. How silly? Audiences get to be part of the foolishness. They can join a conga line at Song of Singapore (1), play Heart and Soul with the nerdish vocal quartet in Forever Plaid (2), be a beauty- contest judge at Pageant (3), hum along at Forbidden Broadway 1991 1/2 (4), be a suspect in the whodunit plot at a Hasselfree murder mystery (5) or stand to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Prom Queens Unchained (6). For warm...
Jeremy Nye '94 plays the nerdish studio accountant, Linus Pockets, who speaks in incomprehensible alliterations and wears only plaid. Nye pulls off without a hitch tongue-twisters like this one: "Stu-Stu Studio stock has slipped significantly, suggesting a single, sudden smash success is the solitary studio-saving scenario." Unfortunately, his role is limited to rushing onto the stage with periodic bad news...
...relief from the plot's general despondency comes from Anna MacGregor, who plays Janice, Tillie's competitor in the school science fair. When Janice tells the audience about her brilliant achievement--reconstructing the anatomy of a dead cat--it is truly hilarious. With her New York accent and her nerdish look, MacGregor realizes the full potential of her part...