Word: freakishness
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...Indian subcontinent, great floods have ruined the Bangladesh harvest. Far off in Africa's Sahel region, six years of drought have only recently been interrupted by rain. In the U.S., both the corn and soybean crops will fall far below expectations this year because of a freakish succession of excess spring rains, summer drought and early fall frost...
Through a freakish set of circumstances, though, Mike Cherry found himself in a position to try. He began in the middle class, and wound up an ironworker for seven years, going through the ranks and becoming a part of the trade, devoted to it, so that he's still ironworking and will apparently never quit. He became an ironworker, but even that worked against the book in the end. Anyway, he started as a schoolteacher, for nine years. Then something happened...
...effect," as it comes to be called, looks like a freakish, sinister eclipse. It has no immediate impact on earth until Biologist Hubbs (Nigel Davenport) notices some strange behavior in the ant world. The ants start to do, as Mathematician Lesko (Michael Murphy) puts it, "things that ants don't do: meeting, communicating, making decisions...
...explain the fact that around the world there are millions of motorcycles that reside peacefully with their human masters, willing to obey any of their masters' whims? More important, why are these law-abiding motorcycles never forced to do freakish things? Motorcycles have no culture. The characters of motorcyclists vary widely, but the actions of a few bring the press down...
There is no reason to shop at the Store 24 (in the Square next to the Harvard Square Theatre)--unless you happen to be into shopping at 3 a.m. or some other freakish hour. Then, at least, you probably are getting the best bargains of any stores open. The atmosphere at Store 24 is, well, different from most grocery stores. From the street you expect to hear Indian snake charmers music--but what do you want...