Word: freak
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...eventually he founded Cablevision, which he sold in 1996 for $2.7 billion to Time Warner. At 78, he's a venture capitalist who wears an American-flag pin on his lapel--which makes him an unlikely guy to devote himself to the legacy of a place that had a freak-out tent. But he does have a daughter who attended Woodstock (against his wishes). And another who missed out but persuaded him much later to buy the land where it all happened...
...talk about his relationship with Blair.) I went up to Oxford just before Blair did; it was absorbed with sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, with a sprinkling of student politics on top, and to espouse religion of any sort was to mark yourself as something of a freak. (My own family was deeply religious, something I successfully hid from my Oxford friends for years.) Those in Oxford's "God squad," Blair remembers, were at "the cutting edge of weirdism." Thompson, by contrast, Blair told me, was "an amazing guy-the first person really to give me a sense that...
...with China is today. Japan was using "unfair" trade practices to disadvantage U.S. industry, many Americans believed. The Japanese were "manipulating" their currency, the yen, to make their exports extra cheap in the U.S. market, in the same way China is accused of currently doing with the yuan. Americans freaked when Japanese companies bought supposedly priceless U.S. assets like Rockefeller Center and Columbia Pictures; today, Americans freak out when Chinese firms even attempt to purchase anything on U.S. soil. American manufacturers cried out for protection against the evil Japanese onslaught orchestrated by the sinister Ministry of International Trade and Industry...
...this point that the movie heads south into predictable stupidity. She, of course, is an up-tight neat freak. He's an amiable slob. She's a careerist. He doesn't much care if he ever works again. She moves into his bachelor pad, which I don't really have to describe, since you've been there a dozen times - dirty dishes and empty beer bottles everywhere, the floors strewn with socks and underwear - and don't even think about the bathroom. She has a long scene where she tries to teach him the virtues of putting the toilet seat...
...baking soda. "I believe it's important to do your part and be responsible," says Timmons, who does so by consolidating car trips, buying toys secondhand and substituting vintage plates for paper at her kids' birthday parties. "But at the same time, I don't want to be freaking out about it." Parents have enough to freak out about already...