Word: freakishness
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...gleaming chrome, mirrored walls and powerful lighting create an atmosphere very different from that of the old Tommy's, which some students described as "sinister," "grungy" and "really freakish...
...Rectum") and Dante's Inferno in others (Bubbles falls through the concentric underwater circles of the Harlem River which is populated with the floating corpses of pimps, numbers runners and crackheads). At times, the novel approaches the off-Kilter horror of those classic with its manic, madcap parade of freakish characters...
Scientists, however, are more cautious than the umbrella-carrying public. Even climatologists who believe that global warming may eventually trigger extreme weather variations like the ones we are experiencing say it is too early to prove a direct connection. The outbreak of freakish weather could also have been partly caused by one or more of several large-scale atmospheric events now under way. The main suspects, in descending order of likelihood...
...most places, torrential downpours, tornadoes, flash floods and mudslides would be about as welcome as the bubonic plague. In drought-parched California, however, such freakish weather has been greeted with jubilation. So far, what some residents are calling the "Miracle March" has brought three weeks of rain and almost doubled the state's normal monthly precipitation levels. The watery largesse resulted when a high-pressure system moved off the Pacific Coast, unleashing the storms that have drenched the state...
...even some of those celebrating the warmth expressed concerns about the environmental origins of the freakish weather. "Something's not right," said Dana Embrose, an employee of Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream. "It's the ozone layer or something...I don't know...