Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even remember all of them. Big classes, small classes, sections. Lecture halls with chairs so comfy that it's even better than your own bed, or classrooms with benches so wooden that I wake up with three fewer vertebrae in my back. Good professors, boring professors, weird professors...
...this spirit that the techno beat, weird light effects and eerie pantomime are intended; the best that can be said for it all is that it's trippy. The poem itself, by contrast, is very delicately nuanced, so much so that it can be read simultaneously as the nihilistic sequel to "The Waste Land" and as the first stirring of Eliot's Anglican religious poetry. Some of the images Eliot uses--such as the "multifoliate rose" and the quotations from liturgy--prefigure his highly devout late poems, the "Four Quartets." That's certainly not the idea that one gets from...
Instead he proved anew that he was, as elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider...
...professor of Literature and Arts C-22: "European Culture in the Latin Middle Ages" wowed shoppers with slides of the Starbucks coffee logo, a video clip from "Pulp Fiction," and an audio clip from a Weird Al Yankovich spoof of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise...
What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...