Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrator is the relentlessly randy Danny Smiricky -- also the hero of Skvorecky's critically praised The Engineer of Human Souls (1984) -- who habitually casts a jaundiced eye on the weird world of his birthright: a subjugated land where peasants bump elbows with intellectuals and the new dogma of communism has declared war on old Roman Catholic beliefs. Consigned in 1948 to teach the wisdom of Stalin at a vocational school in the rural Czechoslovak village of Hronov, Danny fights off a venereal disease contracted earlier and, rather unsuccessfully, the temptations of his female students. While he attends Mass with Vixi...
...make ice skating in itself stressful, it's wonderful. Just moving on the ice--it's a weird sensation," says Scott A. Hanna '92, a skating enthusiast who began his new hobby at Bright last year. Since then, Hanna has moved up through the ranks, graduating from both the beginner and the advanced classes...
...charm -- witness The Honeymooners -- was its ramshackle unpredictability. The Very Best solidly documents Sullivan's skill as a talent scout but gives little sense of the show's herky-jerky rhythm and calculated structure -- one novelty act, two comic spots and so on -- or of its host's weird, looming omnipresence. Solt's deconstruction is a pleasant memory tickler. It could have been more...
...wrote that he had never seen so many planes in his life, and that he expected to head into Kuwait after the bombing had softened up the Iraqis. He had latched onto an infantry corporal who knew his business. "He's teaching me a lot," Thom wrote. "It's weird, but I'm not scared. Nervous, I guess, but not scared. I've been preparing for this for a year now, and ((Aunt)) Jean would probably say I'm brainwashed, but I've joined the Marines to do something for the U.S., and why not the best?" The letter ends...
...weird how I prioritize that thing. I've gone down (to New York) the day before finals." -Frank Harper