Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this seems like an election-eve conversion, it should. The President doesn't really like much about California except its trove of 54 electoral votes, 20% of the total he needs to win a second term. His weird Tex-prep political roots have always put him culturally closer to Barbara Mandrell than to Michelle Pfeiffer. As an Administration official explained, "I don't think Bush has ever had an affinity for the place. He finds the culture rather alien." In his autobiography, Bush mournfully recalled the late 1940s when he worked as a traveling drill-bit salesman in California...
...jail, and on the lawyer's vulnerable family. The basic ethical tangle remains as well: How can a good liberal fight a bad man who at first may do nothing but lurk? But now everything else is more intense, more complex. From the film's first images -- weird creatures shimmering just below sea level like monsters of the id, De Niro's eyes burning through the screen -- Cape Fear has been Bobbyized and Martyized...
...WEIRD FOOTWEAR...
...keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher of the Louisiana Political Review: "We're in a new dimension of time and space. We're in the twilight zone." Sadly, this excursion may well cost the state its future...
...still in Harlem not feeling excessively comfortable or safe. Fuck. I will call later and let you know what's going on. This is a fucking weird story; I sort of wish I hadn't decided to do it. Anyway, um, I'll talk to you later...