Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years since Salvador Dali separated from the surrealist movement, he has leaped from one extravagant triviality to the next, combining the roles of circus freak, spangled elephant and Barnum himself. The performance is tinted with sadness. Dali is undoubtedly the last of the great dandies, but nobody accepts his own belief that he is the last of the great artists, heir to Vermeer and Velásquez. The baroque costume jewelry, the monarchist-Catholic oratory, the worn stock of crutches and soft watches-all have dust on them. Even the trembling antennas of that fabled mustache have apparently ceased...
Such efficiency soon made V. the premier mathematician in the County of L He occupied a prestigious university chair. Research foundations competed to give him grants. He was appointed consultant to the National Bureau of Statistical Analysis. What more could a figure-freak want...
Most of the people that tried out for the Freak varsity were somewhat more realistic about their capabilities at least. A few of the boys had played college ball at Princeton or someplace else where they don't consider football too important. But most of them were hackers, you know. Guys out for a little fun, for charity. It was a casual thing. The Freaks versus The Fuzz in a tackle football game in front of 50,000 people at a $5 top. All of the proceeds go to Project Turnabout, a halfway-house for drug addicts. Beautiful...
...McCoy had taught Sunday school until last March. "All he ever talked about was sin," recalled one of his students. "He's a fine man," insisted his landlord. A classmate at Brigham Young University, where McCoy was a senior majoring in law enforcement, called him "an organized-crime freak" who "wanted to make his dent on the world by busting crime syndicates." His mother was mystified. "He's been very devoted to his church." Sobbed his wife: "How could he?" McCoy offered no explanation...
...Club could save money by not awarding the traditional green blazer to the victor, and instead adding hash marks to the Bear's sleeves. Lee Trevino, still yappy despite a mediocre performance of his own, could hardly contain his admiration: "He's gone. He's a freak. That's what I told him. He might even beat two people. Beat their best ball. Nobody'll beat him. He could beat the Man Up There on a wide-open course...