Word: weird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time the 11-year-old Society Expeditions has offered a trip to a weird place. Previous tours have included Easter Island, Antarctica and Mongolia...
...urban San Francisco that form the larger part of his output in the '80s, are an altogether different matter. The bright city on its blue bay has always been a happy hunting ground for purveyors of seagull-and-cable-car kitsch. But Thiebaud's paintings give it a weird, flattened intensity, as though its switchback hills and plunging spaces had been crushed flat against the canvas, in a parody of cubism with overtones of Canaletto...
...obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field of suspects and runs the killer to earth, or in this case sand. Thereupon "all the souls of all the people lost and not wanting to be lost . . . wailed...
...abounds in this tale. Red is everywhere, from the Coke cans to the ever enigmatic Santa suit. And why does Roberts choose to befriend a small marsupial, of all creatures, that he finds in his apartment. But this movie is definitely not, as one Boston critic put it, too weird for words. The comedy of Coca-Cola Kid is akin to that of Bill Forsyth, odd and ethnic, but not inaccessible by any means. In contrast to the supposed Oscar heavy-weights that have gone thud this fall, The Coca-Cola Kid doesn't take itself or anyone else...
...vocation. On a trip last year to the Kutch desert in the Indian state of Gujarat, his car broke down in the middle of a bridge spanning a salt sea. While friends fought off fantasies of sunstroke, dehydration and death in the wilderness, Miyake gazed at the weird water patterns below him, exclaiming, "This is really special." The travelers were eventually rescued and transported to a remote village, where they shared a room with a number of nimble rats. Recalls his friend, Museum Curator Kazuko Koike, "Issey snored through...