Word: freak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play was a freak accident. Roy was finishing a check on a North Dakota player in the corner, when the rookie from Yarmouth, Maine stumbled and fell face-first into the metal portion of the boards before slumping down...
...Crimson can avert the rustiness, freak accidents, and adversity that have marked this season of astounding improvement over last, it has a sound chance of achieving that closure next weekend...
...pyromania--Insomniac is an indeterminate blur of bleakness. The CD's opening song, Armatage Shanks (the name of a toilet manufacturer), isn't about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration: "I have no belief/ but I believe/ I'm a walking contradiction...
Sexual anxiety in "Hour" has more to do with delusional love than anxiety. It's not just his wife Johan fears, it is high society itself--quick to leech off him for his artistic skill but just as eager to jeer at him as a spurned suitor or a freak...
...Wong Foo" could have been at least funny. In Beeban Kidron's directorial thumbs, it becomes schlock. In the spirit of drag and "gay humor," Kidron tried to camp up the movie, and instead made it forced and silly. Catering to straight middle America, Kidron turns drag queens into freaks and drag shows into freak shows. The Webster Hall drag contest at the beginning of the movie was reminiscent of Jabba the Hut's palace from "Return of the Jedi...