Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intrigued by Lewinsky's keeping the stained dress. Why? Was she planning to frame it? Or send it to be auctioned at Sotheby's? This girl is weird. But even weirder is Clinton's ever getting involved with such a birdbrain. GENE C. GERZSO Mexico City...
Baseball is on top now among competitive sports. Basketball is ugly. Hockey is merely cool, and football is weird. The kind of baseball being played today is as good as that of days gone by, and we are filled with the sense that teams are playing for the fans again. This type of play is what we deserve. This is a sport worth supporting. Spectators almost forgot to demand quality. BEAU TIMKEN, Founder National Spectators Association San Francisco...
...this pressure that McGwire is trying to avoid; at one point, he threatened to shut down the batting-practice show. The fanaticism is so intense, and even weird, that a fan wrote to the Cardinals asking for an old McGwire bat so he could use it as a wooden leg. Recently, when getting beer for his buddies, McGwire returned to his car to see people leaving their cars and slowly walking to him with pens outstretched. He described the scene to comedian Mark Pitta as The Night of the Living Dead. So McGwire wants to separate himself from the sideshow...
Williams: Actually, yes. But there's more. You can't just say "Slavs"; you have to say "Sluuuu-ahvs!" and make a weird hand gesture...
Another approach is Disney's Internet Guide, a preselected list of family-safe websites similar to Yahoo's Yahooligans. Since the pool of acceptable sites is limited, surfing here is a bit like going to the children's library. It also suffers from weird glitches. In testing, every time I typed in a potentially objectionable word, it retrieved a transcript of a (tame) interview between two of my favorite writers, Martin Amis and Will Self. That's a bug I could live with...