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Recognizing sarcasm when you hear it involves a complex sequence of cognitive skills, according to Israeli researchers. People with brain damage in the prefrontal lobe--where language and social cues are processed--don't get, for example, why anyone would tell a slacker, "Don't work too hard...
...acid-tongued work mate who asks, "If she's your 'friend,' when was the last time you hung out with her since you broke up?" Fans of Richard Linklater will immediately pick up on the similarities between "Guilty" and the director's smartly-written generational movies such as "Slacker" and "Dazed and Confused." Stevens clearly knows these characters inside and out, and even makes an amusing cameo as a besotted couch casualty...
Three decades or so after his injury, Howie lives in his boyhood home in a Midwestern town that could be Cleveland, Ohio. With both his parents dead, he has a makeshift family of housemates that includes Nit and Nat, affable slacker lunkheads, and Laurel Cao, a level-headed, sexy Vietnamese American from Texas who makes gourmet soups for sale to local shops. He also has a steady, undemanding job doing maintenance and yard work for a local convent. What he does not have is any particular hope for the future...
...wonderfully understated Garber). For Lost's vast cast, Abrams built characters around the actors. "If he saw something in that person," says Matthew Fox, who stars as Jack, the control-freak doctor, "he adjusted the role and even created roles for people," like Jorge Garcia, who plays affable slacker Hurley...
...started on Habbo by creating a character. You can be a slacker in a sweat suit or a nerd in a sweater vest. You can have green hair, a blue Mohawk or an oversize Afro. Next, explore public spaces like Palazzo Pizza, where you can grab a slice, or the Habbosphere Pool Deck, where you can go for a swim or jump off the diving board. Then check out the guest rooms created by users. Gamble in the casino rooms or try to meet someone in the dating rooms. There are gangs and groups?the American version...