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...Company, four unhappy middle-class people are enhancing dull lives with a homemade role- playing game a la Dungeons & Dragons. They speak pseudo Old English mingled with gobbledygook as their revealing fantasy characters -- a woman warrior for a young lesbian, a lizard with strange powers for a pimply computer nerd, a wise old seer for a tedious teacher and a princess who speaks in tongues for his faded, flustered wife -- obsess about visions and quests. By the end, two of the four are certifiably mad, and the other two are silently miserable. The cause of their downfall is the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Magic | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...much a choice of role models. Which could you look up to: (a) Bruce Lee, a violent martial artist with a bad accent, (b) Mr. Miyagi, an exotic martial artist with a bad accent, or (c) Long Duck Dong from the movie Sixteen Candles, a socially inept math/science nerd with a bad accent...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Long Duck Dong's Damage | 12/14/1993 | See Source »

...Room anchors Melissa Green, sitting on the floor in her backward baseball cap, and Collier Andress sent the applause meter jumping, as did Stephanopoulos' aide Heather Beckel. And Robert Boorstin, now a special assistant to the President, won a mixture of laughter and sighs for his Best Supporting Nerd walk-ons, in particular a scene recorded at the morning staff meeting during the convention at which Boorstin wouldn't give up on his quest to have hand-made signs on the convention floor, and when he appeared to win, wanted to have a second discussion over whether they should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Clinton Campaign Home Movies | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...transformation. The welltanned pseudo-slackers run for the libraries, sneaking in as much studying as they can before the morning sun finds them at work. Getting caught studying is unsightly, a sure sign that the overachiever is, no matter how hard he or she cavorts and parties, a downright nerd...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: The Culture of Stress | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

...wasn't a nerd, but I was definitely a geek" said Andrew D. Robin...

Author: By N. RAINE Reyes, | Title: Prominent Poonsters Reminisce on ABC | 10/13/1993 | See Source »

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