Word: freakishness
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...freakish collision kills 150 - even when everybody is following the rules...
...working for a succession of California vintners and picked up the scientific nuances by studying and teaching oenology at California colleges. Don't give in to adversity, he adds. In his first year on his own, he was struck by an almost biblical series of plagues: early frost, freakish heat, then hepatitis. Friends in the valley pitched in to help him pick and press his crop. "You know," he muses, "people like to see you succeed. People like to see a family working together...
...soaring above the summit, trying to land on the slope that leads to the precipice, when the wind stopped. Caught in a rare, freakish downdraft, the kite plummeted. When he saw he would be unable to land he shifted his weight and thrust at the control bar, trying to turn away from the cliff, head out over the ocean, gain some altitude and try again. He didn't have time. Striking the cliff about 15 feet below the summit, he slid 25 feet down the stone face to a ledge. Then the inland wind resumed and pinned the kite...
...needs to attend his one-acter The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which is part of a double bill called Monsters at off-Broadway's Astor Place Theater. In contrast to Gemini, Blimpie is as joyous as a bleeding welt. It is a lacerating look at adolescence from the freakish vantage point of a boy of 14 who weighs...
Fittingly enough, Bessie Gilmore's attorney was Professor Anthony G. Amsterdam of Stanford, the man who had helped persuade the Supreme Court to answer that question in the negative. Or so the answer seemed to be in 1972. when the Justices ruled that the "arbitrary" and "freakish" way death sentences were imposed made them unacceptable. But when several states began writing more limited and more specific new death-penalty statutes (35 have now done so), the court started refining the rules. Having rejected capricious death sentences on the one hand, it also rejected mandatory ones, like an automatic death...