Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weird scale and weave of plot lines, [it] was indeed innovative; its basic premises, though, were old news, which made its whiff of self-congratulatory nihilism annoying...
...could define hyperactive children, I was struck by the fact that they describe what we used to call an obnoxious little brat. Pity the poor parents who have to resort to drugs to replace good old-fashioned parenting. Do any of the kids who take Ritalin learn, through some weird chemical process, good manners, politeness, kindness and altruism? Are parents that naive, or do they just want to turn their kids into zombies and avoid the whole problem of parenting? RICHARD ORLANDO Montreal...
There's something pretty weird going on at www.usmint.gov. Thousands of people, most of them surely white Americans, are telling the U.S. Mint which of six images of an American Indian woman they want on a new coin. The woman is Sacjawea, the Shoshone slave who accompanied Merriwether Lewis and William Clark on their 1804 journey across the Pacific Northwest. The coin is the new gold-colored, quarter-sized dollar piece, which will be minted next fall and which may replace the dollar bill within a few years...
...walked into the SAC office once, and sawthings written on the wall about a woman on SAC inreference to `underoos," says the associate. "Itseemed kind of weird--the place seemed very clubbyand frat-like...
...Going to a place like Harvard, where some people are aiming to be senators or President, makes it sort of weird to have the only goal that I'm sure of be an athletic one and a sort of obscure athletic one at that," Steele said. "Nobody's going into rugby for the money or the fame or the glory. Winning nationals last year was literally one of the most gratifying experiences I've ever had, and definitely the most gratifying sports experience that I've ever had. It was just incredible. Everybody burst into tears after...