Word: freaked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...touch with the plight of average Americans, he repeatedly insisted, "I care very much about the people that are hurting in this state." He noted seven times in nine appearances that the first floor of his ancestral summer home in nearby Kennebunkport, Me., had been clobbered in a freak hurricane last October. "When a storm hits the seacoast here," he said in Portsmouth, "it hits...
...entered the Body Shop, I felt a rush of nostalgia for my native New York and the candy counter at Bloomingdale's. Lined up along the green marble walls (the eco-freak's color of choice) were glycerin soaps, bath beads and little soaps shaped like fruit, some in glass candy jars and all assorted in at least eight different colors. The whole thing looked like a nice little country buffet. Just don't eat the soap...
...story of a guy who made his living in the carnival world; he worked as a barker with small-time freak-show acts like "the two-headed baby" and "the snake girl," he told the Warren Commission. He bummed around looking for roustabout jobs, met his first wife at a Salvation Army mission. When she left him in the summer of 1963, he hitchhiked all the way from the West Coast to Dallas looking for her. Picked up some work at the Texas state fair in a carney sideshow called "How Hollywood Makes Movies," which featured some of Jack Ruby...
...about CIA complicity in the Kennedy assassination, 20 years of investigations have shown that the CIA was no stranger to complicity in assassinations. We know how the best and brightest blue bloods bonded with the bloodiest and dirtiest Mafia hit men in plots to kill Castro. We know the freak-show side of the agency that used damaging mind-control drugs on unsuspecting citizens; we know that the agency's own top counterspy, James Angleton, paralyzed the place with his paranoid suspicions that KGB moles and false defectors had penetrated the CIA in order to, among other things, conceal...
COMMUNISM, if anyone other than 1.1 billion Chinese remembers what that is, used to work something like this: You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you. Let's do the same for this embryonic snit: The IOP pretends to bring Duke, and we pretend to freak out. It's efficient, satisfying and over in a flash...