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...same time, Weegee had begun to detect that freakish charge in the metropolitan air that would become the signature mood of Arbus' work. There's a feral quality in a lot of the good citizens of Weegee's New York. You catch it in the gleaming eyes of the kids at a crime scene in Their First Murder; these are children who are thrilled, or at the very least intrigued, by the sight of a dead body. In some of his other people there's a passivity that is no less unnerving. You see it in his picture of Irma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Dames! Stiffs! Mugs! | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...with a slightly freakish two MNF games to go (thanks to the 'Occupied' sign on Pro Player Stadium yesterday) L.I. Slim has stretched his lead over Kansas City to four games, by virtue of a bloody 7-5 showing (17-8 overall). KC comes in at an Astros-like 6-6 to move his tally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Trophy Marlins | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...example, the Salient has such a fetish for printing frequent and bitter attacks on affirmative action and feminism that one is forced to consider two equally frightening and bizarre alternatives: either the magazine is actually a freakish parody of contemporary conservative thought, or its whiny writers really fancy themselves to be the anointed defenders of Western civilization from the post-modern and multicultural hordes. Undergraduate conservatives are constantly publishing articles that are so offensive that it is appropriate to occasionally flip them the written equivalent of a middle finger...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Truth to Power | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

Kaufman, in his editorial, adopted the Peninsula's tactics, listing the names of those on the magazine's masthead and flinging barbs at its staffers, calling them "freakish fascists" and "fools." Kaufman urged his readers to "acknowledge their contribution to the campus press and let them know just how their drivel makes you feel...

Author: By Shawn Zeller, | Title: READER REPRESENTATIVE | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...dare denounce us as "freakish fascists" because of Peninsula's refusal to condone the actions of stormtroopers from the Strategic Offense Society (who twice disrupted scheduled classes at this University) and the moral laxity of the Harvard administration (who let the offenders go without even a slap on the wrist and recently rewarded their parental organization, the BGLSA, with office space). You obviously have no idea what a fascist is; pray to God you never have to find out. You dare accuse me of "marching under Stars and Stripes while eschewing the basic values this country stands for" for exercising...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriot Prefers Picking Garbage to Insulting Journalism | 10/19/1996 | See Source »

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