Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheerfully bewildered and wandering around in a "yellow Van Halen promotional T-shirt." One day, as he's cooking spaghetti, his life suddenly falls through a rabbit hole of sorts. Spooky strangers call up with cryptic messages, women named Nutmeg and Malta enfold him in weird schemes, his wife disappears, and another woman appears in her clothes and in his bed. Reality plays like a TV program--but one showing on a channel Toru doesn...
...while any interpretation of the Weird Sisters can be viewed as controversial, given both the ambiguity and the importance of these figures to the play, this production's use of them is both creative and effective. In terms of the plot, the director opts to show us the witches manipulating events--putting words into the mouth of the "bloody captain" in the first scene, showing up as mysterious messengers and delivering accounts we're not sure are true, carrying away what seems to be Lady Macbeth's baby in the prologue to the play...
There was, incidentally, one very serious technical problem. When Macbeth returns to the Weird Sisters in Scene IV.i for their prophecies about his future, the prophecies, which are delivered by conjured apparitions, come through loudspeakers; the sound is so garbled that if you don't already know the text, you're not going to pick up on what they're saying, which makes the ensuing two acts considerably more difficult to understand...
...input; the brain fills the resulting void with visions, dreams, memories, whatever. Sara says that once, after snorting several "bumps" of K, she thought other kids on the dance floor had been decapitated. "But I mean, I really knew they had heads. I was just, like, 'This is so weird...
...pretty much any Web developer who knew how to work a mouse, hoping it would create something--anything--for MSN. A Web novice tells of walking into a meeting to pitch ideas and being asked instead for his company's business plan. "I walked out and thought, 'That was weird,'" he recalls. "I'd never been to a meeting where they asked, essentially, 'Are you guys for sale...