Word: freak
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...offer some alternatives, taken from the big and the small screens. 1. “Doorman” (“Knocked Up”)—For reminding all the ladies out there that whenever some ’roided-out freak with a clipboard tries to mess with your night, relax. He’s just a fucking doorman. 2. “D’oh” (“The Simpsons Movie”)—Need to vent frustration without offending your family members? Consider this innocuous syllable. Plus, the pop-culture...
...asked me why I was wearing sunglasses that matched my scarf (both were red) and why I was wearing sunglasses at night. I laughed a tinkling, musical laugh and swung my scarf over my face. The scarf had empowered me to wear sunglasses at night without feeling like a freak; a feat that, ever since I saw Anna Wintour do it at a fashion show, I have wanted to accomplish. THREE TIPS TO ROCK THE SCARF: (1) Proportion, proportion, proportion—pair the scarf with slim, pared-down clothing. You don’t want to look like...
...friendless high school student named Donnie (Dan McCabe) sees a man-sized rabbit with a horrifying mask, calling himself Frank. Frank (Perry Jackson) tells him in a terrifyingly distorted voice that “the world will end” in 28 days, and saves Donnie from a freak accident. For the next month, Donnie does whatever Frank tells him, upsetting the delicate social balance of his emotionally repressed suburb in the process...
...after the books have already been published. But it is precisely because Rowling has waited this long that her revelation will have such a great effect. She has tricked the homophobes into loving and mourning for a man whom they would have just as easily dismissed as monster or freak had they known his secret earlier. She has implicitly shown that sexuality need not be the defining characteristic of a wizard, that it does not correspond to some standard stereotype—and in doing so, she has moved beyond “gay pride” and towards true...
Just a few hours before the freak accident that claimed her life, recently married Harvard graduate student Stine Rossel chatted with her husband about having children and stopped occasionally on the New Hampshire hiking trail to playfully throw leaves at her husband.“We were just so happy that day,” her husband, Brian M. Wood, also a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, recalled in an interview yesterday. “She was just enjoying the nature and everything was so beautiful.”The afternoon hike turned unimaginably tragic...