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...course, there are dozens more types. The laid-back. The artsy. The nerd. The extracurricular king or queen. Come to think of it, the most interesting project of all might be to put seven Harvard people together in a house to find out what happens when they stop being polite and start being real. But there's one major flaw: Harvard people aren't polite to begin with. Let the auditions begin...
...kids, 'Who was that?' He said, 'That's Michael.' And I said, 'Michael who?' That's when I started to look closely at this nerdy kid." That sort of characterization does not sit particularly well with Johnson, who says, "Coach Ezar always makes too much of that nerd stuff. The truth is that looking nice was the style then. I like my clothes, always have...
...works very smartly. The Simpson-Bruckheimer production duo run clever variations on their macho obsessions (missiles, car chases, gay baiting, the Crimson Tide mutiny plot). Connery and Cage are fine odd-couple buddies--the grizzled lifer and the computer nerd who, even when tossing a live grenade, throws like a girl. This ain't art, exactly. But if you're at the 'plex and need to choose between The Rock and a Cruise place, it's no choice...
Randall A. Fine '96 and his fiancee Anne K. Price have also been dating for years: seven, to be exact. They met the summer after ninth grade at "nerd camp," as Price calls it. The two began talking politics in a lounge at Duke University, and three days later, Fine asked her to marry...
...only boy with an interest in her, demonstrates it by threatening rape. When she responds in kind to a spitball attack, she almost puts a teacher's eye out. Things are scarcely better at home: Dad is passive, Mom is aggressive; her elder brother is a computer nerd and the leader of a hopeless garage band; her little sister is a tattletale in a tutu, meanly waltzing off with such love as can survive in the cold climate of split-level suburbia...