Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...totally accepted," Aibel said. "Guys don't have a problem with hitting her in the face, and vice versa. At first, it was a little weird because most girls only fight other girls. But, the coach wanted Joy to spar with us. She's one of the coolest people in the club...
Fellow teammate Franklin Liu, a senior, said, "She's a natural athlete. It's not weird to spar with a female. She beats...
...fumbling for the answers to the age of steam and electricity. Man had been tossed into the vestibule of another millennium. It was wonderful to think of what the Atomic Age might be, if man was strong and honest. But at first it was a strange place, full of weird symbols and the smell of death...
...more democratic forms of media but also the specter of invasions of our privacy and the spread of false information and poisonous ideas to every nook of a networked world. The impending biotech age promises not only the ability to engineer an end to diseases but also the weird prospects of cloning our bodies and tinkering with the genes of our children...
...Coen is often turned back to the 1940s, Dude is a shambling version of Philip Marlowe, the incomprehensible plot and the all-too-comprehensible visual references homages to the film-noir tradition--as if we needed more. Happily, however, the Coens have established a tradition of their own: deeply weird characters (let John Goodman's great portrait of one of those paranoid know-it-alls who actually know nothing stand for the mad multitude this movie contains) embedded in profoundly banal settings (much of the film is set in a bowling alley). So even when they don't achieve...