Word: bizarro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Compared to the last three weeks, it was a bizarro final three minutes for the Harvard football team. And the Crimson couldn't be happier...
...trial for the murder last Halloween of Bernardo Repreza Jr., 15, a Hispanic youth. Repreza, whose father moved here from California to get his son away from violence, was attacked with a bat, a knife and police batons. "I don't understand," Bernardo Repreza Sr. says of a bizarro culture in which having a beer is taboo but clubbing someone to death is A-O.K. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard...
...Portrait of a Serial Killer, the new film makes a virtue of its seeming artlessness. A picture's dead air, ragged acting and extreme shifts of emotional tone throw the viewer off balance. This is not your standard Hollywood movie, whose technical finesse reassures even as it excites. The bizarro indie horror films seem unmediated, out of control, a blurred or garish snapshot of lunacy. It's as if the footage had been found, a year later, and all that's left is a grainy record of awful happenings...
...During one of the presentation's merciful breaks, CNN reported that the attitude among the Senate jury remained "professional." The trial felt at times like a Bizarro-world business meeting: handheld pointers, video clips and bold-colored charts listing the occasions that Monica and the President exchanged gifts. But by the time the fourth manager, Asa Hutchinson, asserted that "the big question is, does the President return Monica Lewinsky's call? Yes he does," you could almost hear the thunk of Senate foreheads hitting tabletops in stultifying-speech-induced slumber. "For the majority of Americans, who believe that what...
Manhattan's 42nd Street, where Bizarro planning makes sense...