Word: freakish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dear glass creatures. Williams is at pain to show that she most resembles her favorite glass friend, a tiny unicorn--"aren't they extinct in the modern world?" who is "crippled" by his horn but loses it in an accident, suddenly, like all the other glass horses, less freakish...
However, noting that the burst of light was not followed by any detectable radiation, as presumably would have been the case after a nuclear detonation, scientists have since been asking whether the flash was not in fact the result of some freakish natural phenomenon. Could it have been caused by a falling meteorite...
Alexander was the victim of a freakish incident on the ninth hole. His seven-iron to the green flew long, landed on a cart path, and then bounced over the clubhouse roof in one gigantic hop. He located the ball in the course parking lot next to the Dartmouth team mobile trailer. After taking a drop. Alexander wanted to play a pitch-and-run to the green but his approach was blocked by the UMass team van. He therefore executed a perfect comme-il-faut wedge shot that landed on the putting surface. Alas, he missed...
Music like this won't seem all that hard to swallow for New York audiences accustomed to the freakish, but will Devo play in Peoria? Actually, Devo comes from Peoria--or, to be more precise, from Akron, which is probably worse. At least the band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think...
...comes The Flounder, a long, magnificent passage of wind, a pungent humanizing of the past and present in which the Weltgeist (world spirit) is a talking fish, a warty, cunning creature with a crooked mouth and two freakish eyes on one side of its doormat body. This turbot, as it is called on the Continent, is also a male chauvinist who echoes one of the two main themes of the book: the eternal power struggle between men and women. The other persistent melody, the importance of cooking and nutrition in history, is in the tasty flesh of the flounder itself...