Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting at my computer, and I had some music playing," said Matthew R. Polisson '02, a resident of Grays Hall. "I turned off the music but my speakers were still on, and I was getting some radio signal pretty clearly. You could hear songs and voices. It was pretty weird...
...masses of people suddenly became denser as we tunneled our way through double-fisted beer mugs. Once at the bar, luck had it that all the drunken sketchballs in the vicinity spiraled toward our seating area. I turned to my friend who was unaware of the weird characters, making lewd gestures over her shoulder; Paul the self-described "local drunk" attempted to spark a meaningful conversation, but after Joanna politely bummed a cigarette, she nonchalantly shrugged off his advances. Paul insisted that my friend had a "stutter" and that she slurred her speech, although she had uttered...
...masses of people suddenly became denser as we tunneled our way through double-fisted beer mugs. Once at the bar, luck had it that all the drunken sketchballs in the vicinity spiraled toward our seating area. I turned to my friend who was unaware of the weird characters, making lewd gestures over her shoulder; Paul the self-described "local drunk" attempted to spark a meaningful conversation, but after Joanna politely bummed a cigarette, she nonchalantly shrugged off his advances. Paul insisted that my friend had a "stutter" and that she slurred her speech, although she had uttered...
...think all of us are going through withdrawal," she says. "It's so weird waking up and not having to go to all these rehearsals...
...possible but desirable. Of course it had to be for a myth painter doing an Apotheosis of Homer. But Ingres brought it into portraiture, most notoriously with his over-the-top portrait of Napoleon (1806) in his imperial coronation robes, as frontal and opulent as a Byzantine god. So weird was this attempt at deification that even David, Ingres's old teacher, found it "incomprehensible"--and it was so much mocked that the touchy Ingres refused to return to France until other paintings had earned him a better reception there, as they presently...