Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Names may carry strange freights -- perverse jokes, weird energies of inflicted embarrassment. Another 17th century Puritan child was condemned to bear the name of Flie Fornication Andrewes. Of course, it is also possible that Andrewes sailed along, calling himself by a jaunty, executive "F.F. Andrewes." Even the most humiliating name can sometimes be painted over or escaped altogether. Initials are invaluable: H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, of the Nixon White House, deftly suppressed Harry Robbins: "Harry Haldeman" might not have worked...
...Cory] Gustafson and I already had our hands in the air," said Cohagen. "We thought they had ruled it a goal. The whole thing was pretty weird...
Well, some other weird and generally unexplained things happen (including a bizarre and totally extraneous scene in which all the characters run around madly while a strobe light flashes...
...will be from bored and lonely children aiming to trade jokes with the volunteers (who keep copies of One Thousand Howlers for Kids handy), complain about teachers or announce that they've won a spelling contest. "Hi, this is Cathy," said one perky voice on a recent call. "Something weird happened. I thought my dog was talking, but it was really my brother making his mouth move...
Their already weird lives are disrupted further when a deranged movie buff named Antonio (Antonio Banderas) decides he'd like a shot at domestic bliss with Pablo. Antonio worms his way into the hearts and beds of both siblings, fixes all their appliances and kills one of their friends. Behind this story rages a giddy post-Franco Madrid filled with Almodovar fixtures: quaaludes, pederast priests, disco-dancing children and haunting boleros...