Word: comical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first half of the movie but can’t quite do so with only weak jokes and puppy-dog looks in his arsenal. The only excitement in the beginning comes from a full-frontal nude scene, which might initially invite disapproval from the audience for its cheap comic appeal. However, the shockingly long duration of the, um, “scene,” redeems Segel by showing that he isn’t doing it just to make the audience laugh, but to make them as uncomfortable as possible. If you can endure the first half...
...just not the hero type, clearly," swaggering billionaire weapons contractor Tony Stark explains to the press in the first of this summer's bumper crop of comic-book films, Iron Man, "with this laundry list of character defects and all the mistakes I've made, largely publicly." Stark, who by the way clearly [does] think he's the hero type, is played by another sort you might not associate with saving the planet: Robert Downey...
...studio execs had any lingering doubts after casting Downey in Iron Man, they must have been soothed when comic-book fans greeted him ecstatically at last summer's Comic-Con in San Diego. A conventiongoer, dressed in a medical costume, strode up to a microphone at the Marvel panel and told Downey, "You've always been one of my favorite actors because we kind of share the same difficult past, if you know what I'm saying." To which a deadpan Downey replied, "Are you a war veteran too?" When asked why he dodged the kid's obvious search...
...better or for worse, became the best class in the world.Of these rap universes, Wu-Tang’s—one part kung-fu, one part Mafia, one part Nation, with a smattering of nerd (“mathemetics,” Greek mythology, comic books) that makes it particularly Harvard appropriate—is for me the most all-encompassing and the most irresistible. Any mythology that deifies bathrobes, Snapple iced tea, and Wallabees is a win in my book. Another part of the appeal is personal: nine men contributing to a unified whole, with each successfully doing...
...Silicon Valley, and the outsourcing of much of America's after-hours tech support to India, has led many in the West see this country as a nation of 1.2 billion software engineers. The Indian Institute of Technology brand owes much to Asok, the super-geek of the popular comic strip Dilbert, who claims to be "mentally superior to most people on earth," is trained to sleep only on national holidays, and can reincarnate from his own DNA. But studies point out that while India's pool of 14 million university graduates grows by a further 2.5 million every year...