Word: strangerness
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...shnooks laughing, one has to cut through the anxieties with the relentlessness of a hedgecutter slicing through spam. Here is an ugly redhead who is not only rich, famous and unhappy, but considered also to be sexually attractive by many beautiful women, some of whom do not have analysts. Stranger things have happened of course. One has difficulty remembering what they...
...allusions and allegories flow unceasingly, as anyone familiar with Getting Even, Without Feathers, or any of the movies can attest. For instance, Allen on Camus: "The night was windy and dark, and Cloquet had a split second to decide if he would risk his life to save a stranger. Unwilling to make such a momentous decision on an empty stomach, he went to a restaurant and dined." And a few sentences later, on Sartre: "A feeling of nausea swept over him as he contemplated the implications of his action. This was an existential nausea, caused by his intense awareness...
...years since his Paris days some outrageous and inflamatory--and sometimes dull--680-word satires have rolled off his typewriter. But Buchwald thinks the news that appears in the papers every day is much stranger than anything he creates. Some examples...
Neither Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, author of this cover, nor Reporter-Researcher Nancy Williamson, who checked it, is a stranger to environmental nightmares. Williamson's Long Island community is threatened with ground-water pollution from chemicals. And Magnuson wrote TIME's cover story on the near nuclear disaster at Three Mile Island 18 months...
...magazine experience, Felker is no stranger to New York newspapering. Before the old World Journal Tribune died in 1967, leaving the afternoon field to the Post, he was hired to help liven up the paper. Felker bridles at suggestions that he took the Tonight job so he could "zap Murdoch." He says he just wants to put out a solid afternoon paper "for people who have been in a news vacuum...