Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worshipping at the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church when a fellow parishioner collapsed in her pew. Rather than call 911 to rush the 96-year-old woman to the hospital, Bayne asked the ushers to take her to the church parlor. The doctor, who is something of a gadget freak, was equipped for any contingency. Stashed in his black bag--actually a blue-and-gray fishing-tackle box--was a miniaturized version of every diagnostic tool he needed to assess her symptoms, as well as a full supply of standard emergency-care drugs to treat them...
RELEASED. RICK JAMES, 44, grandmaster of funk (Super Freak); after serving two years and 23 days of a five-year sentence; in Folsom, California. In 1994 James was convicted of assaulting a woman, holding her hostage and giving her cocaine...
...ventures that followed, Reeve brought the earnest student's desire to learn and a self-described and often self-lamented perfectionism. It is hard to tell whether his approach to things is a product of what he concedes to be a "control-freak" tendency or of a genuine, deep-seated fear that most things are bound to go wrong. At the same time he has a determined sense--nearly grim in its seriousness--that whatever is wrong can, with discipline, be made right. The accident has not changed this basic attitude, though the nature of his injury is too serious...
...Eddy Arnold duet of the venerable Cattle Call, her voice breaks with startling ease and, in a microsecond, pole-vaults from barroom belter in the low register to choir girl in the high. If there were no feeling behind it, this double-jointed vocalizing would be only a freak talent. But Rimes either knows the heartsickness behind country songs or can fake it brilliantly. There is a hint of girlishness in the choice of some lightweight material on the album (MCG/ Curb), and her singing sometimes is closer to the full-throttle glottal attack of Brenda Lee, a precocious stylist...
Amelia faces her own problems, going through familiar phases with Bill the video guy (Kevin Corrigan)-or as she revealingly refers to him, "the ugly guy." To all outward appearances, Bill seems about as desirable as the freak-show films he tries to recommend to Amelia, we are confused and wonder if we should vaguely pity Amelia as she seems to pity herself. But Bill's actually a decent guy with his own feelings, not immune to Amelia's name for him, and, when he senses Amelia's doldrums, he tries to help, however clumsily...