Word: weird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When you're an interpreter, it's like you're in a bubble with the person. All the emotions of the situation are being channeled through you. It's very weird," he says...
...like to be privy to everyone else's weird thoughts and ways of looking at things," says Cooperson, in explanation of his love of languages. A tangential interest is drawing--in particular creating cartoons--again reflecting his sense of the offbeat. Last year he helped put together a cartoon book, and he has done the graphics for several of the house T-shirts. Cooperson jokingly traces this interest in the unusual back to his hometown: Wilmington, Delaware. "It's so small and American. I needed the exotic...
...FLIP SIDE of the old saw about politics making strange bed-fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
...decade's most formidable bands, a group responsible for the sweetest, strangest, funniest rock to roll over the '70s and nestle into the '80s. A man who should be hanging close to the set, seeing to the details of directing his first feature film, not striking out on some weird nocturnal expedition in search of hymenopterous marauders. He may not resemble the manic murderer in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but he will never be mistaken for Mark Trail either. Is this a man to follow into the night...
WHAT HAPPENS when a weird guy with a gift for ingenious gadgetry meets a greedy, uptight bank-robber and his brainy lover? Malcolm, just off the boat from Down Under, tries to answer this very question in low-budget high style...