Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite our limited exposure to Yale life, The Game and its surrounding festivities convey striking differences between our two schools. Call it artsy, call it liberal, or call it just plain weird, there is a different air pervading the New Haven grounds than the more conservative, assertive and competitive atmosphere previously described...
Huynh says, "I felt like I was a subject myself because I was working such weird hours. One week I would be working five-hour nights, another week the day shifts, and another week the night shifts...
...Henchman (or -woman): Oddjob, Jaws, Rosa Klebb--this is a job for grotesques. Gottfried John as a rogue Russian general looks weird all right, but he has no unique killing skills--just a sneer and a routinely itchy trigger finger. Richard Kiel, you are missed...
...here, recognizably and delightfully, are two weird dudes: a political figure stripped of his moral authority and taking it with a lack of good grace, and a hero who is deeply delusional. Woody turns weak and spiteful; he contemplates criminal mischief to discredit his rival. ("I had power,/ I was respected,/ But not anymore," spits out Randy Newman in one of the film's three very grownup sing-along tunes.) And Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts. If you've never in your life seen a toy have a nervous breakdown, Buzz's will make it worth...
...medium budget that earn medium to high grosses. "When an action movie costs $60 million and then tanks," says actress-director Jodie Foster, "the studio takes a huge bath. But if you make reasonable films about people and how they relate to one another and the weird adventures they get into, you're actually taking a very good risk...