Word: freakishly
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Charlie and Bill stop at nothing in their lust for gambling, be it in cards or crap or horses or basketball, and most of us would look on them as freakish characters crazy enough to risk their savings on the roll of a die. But, after two hours of witnessing the frenetic, unmitigated pace of their lives, of their willingness to completely expose themselves to the fancy of fortune and the possibility of disaster, I felt a fascination much different from that usually associated with watching freaks like the fat lady at the circus. Instead, I felt the same amused...
...para-history without at any point touching ground or making the slightest sense, there is a lot of dizzy fun in the book. Edward Whittemore is more an engaging long-distance liar than a novelist, and his scheme for persuading literature to lurch forward is simply to introduce another freakish impossibility whenever reason's vague outline is sighted through...
...precisely because of this accelerating use that the fiber's threat to health has become apparent. Twenty years ago, mesothelioma was a disease so extremely rare that it was thought to be a freakish although invariably malignant chance happening. Until recently, most medical books did not include it in their descriptions of tumors, and the World Health Organization's Classification of Diseases omitted it altogether. It is now found in only one of every 10,000 autopsies performed in the United States. But because of the increasing presence of the mineral fiber in the air we breathe, the incidence...
...doubt be attacked by wom en's liberationists, because both James and Jan have a romantic view of women's nature ("Her frailty is her strength, her inferiority is her privilege") and both believe that there are few more exalted jobs than raising a family. But freakish, no. It is the book's remarkable value that it manages to place what is statistically and socially outlandish within the realm of human loyalty and love...
...most successful of the rock comics are Richard ("Cheech") Marin, 27, and Tommy Chong, 33, an energetic Chicano-Chinese duo whose freakish cast of characterizations includes Sister Mary Elephant, Ashley Roachclip, and Buster the Body Crab. Their first two albums have sold 4 million copies so far, and their newest, Los Cochinos, jumped onto the pop charts at 22, a feat usually accomplished only by top rockers. But several others are stalking comedy's new-found rock audience in their wake...