Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people with bad form, pooretiquette, and a lot of people wearing their hatsbackwards which looks really weird," he said
...clean-cut men and women in theirpreppy outfits who haven't been to The Stadium ina year, talking about its weird concrete seating...
...Baker and his Wife, Jack and Cinderella. This is artfully done and a good contrast to the wide open stage of the "forest" where the rest of the action takes place. The tree panels are on a fine line between abstract and unrecognizable; Rapunzel's tower is downright weird. The rotating rake in the center of the stage is put to good use in indicating scene changes and the director only once gives into the temptation of staging a "Les Miserables"-like turning sequence. Bovine Engineer Margaret Chou also deserves credit for creating a stupid looking yet loveable cow that...
Some people are condemned by what they dare to do, others by what they dare not. Debbie (Diane Lane), the harried housewife in My New Gun, seems reluctant to keep her revolver, let alone fire it. But her weirdly devoted, devoutly weird neighbor Skippy (James LeGros) is happy to take it off her hands. Debbie's pompous husband (Stephen Collins) to Skippy: "What are you doing with my wife's gun in your pants?" My New Gun's dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet...
...worst hours in presidential power shifts follow the unexpected episodes like the assassination of John Kennedy. On Air Force One bringing both Kennedy's body and Lyndon Johnson, the new President, back to Washington, there played out a scene of anguish and exhilaration, a weird struggle contained in the hurtling fuselage. Devastating sorrow among the Kennedy people turned to a blind hatred against the statutory heirs to power. The Johnson group, though stunned by the death of Kennedy, could scarcely contain their satisfaction at gaining the office that had eluded them in the electoral process...