Word: freak
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...people perceive whether a woman looks good for her age. Everyone was so hysterical about whether she should be made over. The fact is that this is a woman who is like a lot of others out there, but because she was on TV, she suddenly looked like a freak. She is what people look like. (Watch TIME's video "Susan Boyle...
...management, civic leaders and just about everyone else in Michigan mismanage the postwar years? Of course. But the real point about Detroit is not that it fell so far, but that it once rose so high. Its economic success during World War II and the immediate aftermath was a freak of geopolitics. With most of the rest of the world (including some regions that were as technologically advanced as Michigan) consumed by war, only the U.S. and Canada were able to develop the high-tech industries of scale that were needed to fight the Axis powers. So successful were those...
...have you been in that same seat? Here's a long piece from The Atlantic, talking about what makes us happy. That's nice. Haiku breakup, on the other hand, will only make you happy because it's not you. This video about child beauty pageants will probably just freak you out (seriously...). These Google Chrome commercials will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside (cute commercials don't do that...
...appeal of so many of the fables Stan Lee and his colleagues have spun out for Marvel Comics is their confirmation of what any young reader may have thought about himself as his body changes and his mind reels: I'm a freak. To this Lee adds the fantasy: But your weirdness is a sign of preternatural abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block...
...original message had made its first appearance on a Harvard house list, that "the girl is at MGH being tested for swine flu. So far, it is only known that she has the flu. When [redacted] sent this email this morning, she didn't know that. Don't freak out, just keep washing your hands and stuff like that...