Word: queered
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...owner graciously allows her to use the place in his absence, though the household staff apparently does not approve. They are evasive, rude and sometimes just country queer...
...Chevalier costume-un smoking (dinner jacket) and straw hat-is a vestigial remnant of the days before the War when, as Guest Contributor William Bolitho of the New York World says: "Young men dressed like this in the evenings and had fun . . . Look at Chevalier's queer straw hat with the same shiver as you see the Cap of Liberty stuck up in Tammany Hall, or the Crown of England. There is human history...
Harrington and her friends, who will head up to Vermount to go skiing tomorrow for the rest of their spring break, even found some of the Crimson cheers amusing. The state school cheer-was funny, but the one about the ref and his wife was queer," she said...
...loans risk damage; it is one of the donnees of museum practice, and the Met has been scrupulously vigilant in its precautions. But one must balance out the benefits against the risks. How necessary, really, is the Vatican show, apart from fund raising? It is a queer fantasy of American education that some good must come of flying works of art, some irreplaceable and others mediocre, 13,000 miles at some risk so that a million curious people can look at them for about two minutes each, under coercively promotional conditions. Such brief and zipless encounters are thought...
...many people wanted to look at her work, and her recognition was slight, at least compared with the fame that surrounded that implacably durable Queen Bee of the art world, Louise Nevelson. Bourgeois belonged to no groups and was a complete loner; her work appeared to have a queer troglodytic quality, like something pale under a log, the vulnerable product of obsession but I with a sting in its tail...