Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, it is just this sort of weird episode that mars the surface of a perfectly good apple. One of the best acts of the show, "Muttville Comix Troupe," is comprised of performing dogs "rescued from shelters around the world." But things get a little strange when one dog appears to spray urine all over a section of the audience, which is extremely close to the ring as per the "intimate" set-up. Later, that same dog is thrown out into the audience, literally, and then thrown back to the freaky ring-leader, who continually rubs the dogs' bellies...
...could marry that spacey pagan." It is simply to acknowledge ignorance. "There is no one alive today," Arnold Toynbee once said, "who knows enough to say with confidence whether one religion has been greater than all others." And though the Heaven's Gaters' doctrine may seem as weird to us as ours apparently seemed to them, the wider tragedy of the cruel suicides would be if our own faith prevented us from lavishing at least as much sympathy on the group as curiosity...
...Sexual without being sexy, the film moves smoothly but slowly, like a Caddy on a revolving showroom platform. Dialogue scenes are conducted in a reverent whisper; only the brakes screech, just after a climax or before a death. Even the carnographic love play--in which each character has predictably weird sex with most of the others--is too studied. The fine actors disport themselves solemnly, like giant hood ornaments of lust...
...Will Win: With Globe winner Larry Flynt mysteriously absent, all three leaders are headed for a photo finish. Lone Star is the favorite among screenwriters, but Fargo has been racking up the pre-show awards--and weird speech patterns did the trick for Pulp Fiction...
...swipe your ID on the Fruitopia machine...and the selection you pick is empty (but the empty light is not on), the machine will make weird sounds like it's searching for the next available bottle and then not drop anything," the student wrote. "Which is fine, but it also deducts a dollar from your account...