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Pavement“Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition”(Matador)3 starsIn the music nerd encyclopedia, “Wowee Zowee” has two listings. The first is “a 1995 album by Pavement”; the second is “a difficult, confusing album, released with the intent of scaring away potential pop success.” Example: “The new Arcade Fire album is totally gonna be their Wowee Zowee.”You might say that “Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition,” a two-disc...
...Japanese girl improbably connected to all these events. TV dramas like Lost and Heroes have global ensembles whose lives are intertwined before they ever meet. One man's winning lottery numbers are another man's key to the universe (Lost); the fate of the world depends on a Japanese nerd's saving an American cheerleader he doesn't know (Heroes...
Kathryn C. Gluckman ’07, a self-proclaimed “etiquette nerd,” said that the event was useful beyond consulting or i-banking jobs, because students’s social lives often revolve around eating together...
...rather than the powerful aide himself. In Dec. 2000, he sent a message trying to ingratiate himself with Rove, noting "I am sure you well covered with everything, but just in case, please do not hesitate to ask me for anything you might need." Sounding like a high school nerd with a crush on the captain of the cheerleading team, he brags about and overstates his few actual interactions with Rove. A March 2002 e-mail says "I was sitting yesterday with Karl Rove, Bush's top adviser, at the NCAA basketball game discussing Israel when this e-mail came...
...whydunit. It's a high-wire premise--how long can the series keep us in the dark about a riddle the characters all know the answer to? The tense pilot suggests the series has a few twists up its sleeve and a cast up to the challenge: as suicidal nerd turned hero Egan Foote, John Billingsley looks like the season's breakout character. Not only for how it teases out the brutal events inside the bank but also for how it shows the bonds among the survivors rebuilding their lives, this post-hostage drama is, well, captivating...