Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mental arithmetic, faced by this weird plastic plush -- seven inches or so of tube per hole, 80 holes on each side -- yields about 3 1/2 miles of plastic tubing; one imagines Hesse, who couldn't afford studio assistants, subjecting herself to a routine of repetitious semi-craftwork as punishing as any weaver's or assembly-line slave's, all in the interest of one restrained, tough, unappealing image that seems to oscillate between fear and desire, irony and alarm. There are boxes and boxes, but not many are as powerful as this...
...LOOK LIKE A weird pair of wraparound sunglasses, but the new Sony Visortron has nothing to do with observing one's surroundings. On the contrary. Two tiny video screens (one in front of each eye) and a miniature videotape player provide the equivalent of a personal movie theater. Sony says a few hours of viewing do no harm to the user's eyes. The company hopes to market the device to airlines. First class, of course...
...think Harvard Square helps. When I was in Downtown Crossing, they were more conservative," Wali says. "They didn't like the weird stuff. Here, they like the weird stuff...
...weird experience. I had been following college sports for years. I live in Memphis, which has no pro sports teams--the closest thing is a Class AAA baseball team...
King's mimicry is startlingly good, but as always, his artistic sensibility is that of a clever 14-year-old. His interest is caught by yucky death scenes and weird delusions, and he doesn't really care that these aren't the real horrors that adults deal with. "Wouldn't it be neat if, see, she gets her husband to fall down an old well," the reader imagines King thinking, "and he yells up at her to help him. She just smiles and kind of falls asleep, and the next thing she knows he's climbed up the inside...