Word: freakish
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Obama, President Barack • election of is absurdly credited to Michael Jackson by Rev. Al Sharpton • Politico mocks freakish insistence of on pronouncing names of people and nations correctly • Putin is met by without subsequent claim to have been able to look him in the eye and "get a sense of his soul" • Rahm Emanuel's implication that the White House is willing to cave on the public health care option is sort of disputed by while also being sort of confirmed by • Vice President Biden's gaffe - that is, his accidental blurt of truth - that...
...dancer, and I can see a lot of the same talent in her paintings.MAB: All of the paintings here are so different. There’s a lot of self-expression. Cartoons next to big splotches.SRW: I like the monsters. They’re cute in a freakish way.RR: Do you think people are exorcising their Harvard frustrations?MAB: More of this would be pretty healthy for the school.—Staff Writer Jillian J. Goodman can be reached at jjgoodm@fas.harvard.edu...
...entire family, and much of another family, and both of these families were long-time followers of Jim Jones dating back to Indiana days. The mood of Jonestown grew darker as this day went on, and late in the afternoon the clouds turned black and there was this freakish wind that just tore through the pavilion as I was talking with Jones. Then there was this torrent of rain. He basically said that the Temple was being destroyed from within, and what he meant by that was that these defectors-were going to tell the world eventually what was really...
...understanding the intimate details of their lives. “I think we’re too pious about this business of creating character,” Wood said. According to Wood, there are only a few authors, such at Tolstoy or Shakespeare, who “have something freakish about their ability to create galleries of characters not like themselves.” But, Wood added, though other writers portray “essentially flat” characters with fewer dimensions, they are deftly rendered and equally as effective. Wood said he was motivated to write his latest book...
...group Hot Boys (like 'N Sync with shivs), Wayne went solo and undertook a transformation almost unprecedented in hip-hop. Over four years, he morphed from a mediocre rapper with a thuggish point of view into a savant who merges sex, drugs and politics with a sneaky intellect, a freakish knowledge of pop culture and a voice out of the Delta. Whether Wayne is, as he claims, the "best rapper alive" is no longer even debated in hip-hop or commercial circles. Since June 10, when his latest album, Tha Carter III, sold 1,005,545 copies in its first...