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...result, every duel devolves into chaos and confusion. And also a good deal of fun. Hamlin's actors seem to have jumped into the project with as much enthusiasm as Tom Sawyer's gang out on a midnight patrol-Tom, you'll remember, was himself something of a Dumas freak-and though it's all still as ridiculous and decadent as even Mark Twain could see, it's also still somehow innocent enough to set off a goodly amount of villain-hissing and hero-hurrahs in the correspondingly enthusiastic audience...
...Stowe found his oarsmen buffeted by more than the polluted Harlem River. "Sleep is crucial," he laments, "but today a guy is likely to have a drug freak playing a stereo all night in the next room. One guy roomed with a kid who killed himself with an overdose; it was fairly unnerving...
...Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...morning, a group of hippies came to Chang to report on John L. Frazier, 24, a former auto mechanic. He had dropped out of the straight world and attempted to join the Santa Cruz hippie community. But he was considered "a real freak," Chang was told, and "paranoid" about ecology. Acting on the tip, he learned that Frazier had lived for several months in a 6 ft. by 6 ft. shanty half a mile from the murdered family's home. Two days before the slayings, he had abruptly moved...
...camera dollies in, he removes his half-moon reading glasses and there is former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall himself, saying, "I believe that Sears' new Phosphate-Free Laundry Detergent is a real breakthrough. For our water's sake, I hope you use it." Ecology-Freak Udall says he will make other commercials, as well as speeches, pitching for the new product. His pay? It will all go to a scholarship fund for American Indians...