Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...staging was conventional too, at least for the Loeb Ex. There was a lot of ordinary self-consciously weird stuff, flashing lights and dream sequences and bursts of music. Bit actors would sometimes go from being people to furniture to symbolic monsters, in a matter of seconds. Sometimes it was hard to tell which was which, but it never really mattered. More stuff that could have been cut without hurting the play any. There was one appealing scenery idea, putting pizza boxes on top of trash cans to serve as restaurant tables. That was cool...
...lightning bolt of uncertainty had crashed into a campaign that was shaping up as a likely Democratic blowout. Suddenly, the battle between a flagging incumbent and his brash young challenger was transformed into a weird tag-team contest in which the newcomer might join forces with one man against the other -- or beat up on both of them simultaneously. And the complicated debate calculus that had been at the center of weeks of negotiations was skewed by the prospect of an unprecedented three-way debate...
...know this hero business--one of the things you learn as you grow older is that life gets very complicated, weird actually," the small-time crook with a selfless streak, Bernie LaPlante tells...
...first song on the four-track disc, "Do You Love Me Now," propels itself with a simple throbbing bass line, weird guitars and sweet vocals. It resembles Pod's catchy "Hellbound" and "Fortunately Gone," but adds more rough stuff to the sing-song melodies and snappy beats...
Appiah, who has spent much of his career withDuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry LouisGates Jr., admits that his view on race mightsound "weird" to nonacademics...