Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shot, two gravestones, a smile. The trial can be reduced to these emblems. Or to entries in a specialized gazetteer: Rockingham, Bundy, Brentwood. A bestiary: barking dog, white Bronco, blond Kato. Names on a list: Marcia and Johnnie, Darden and Shapiro, Fung, Lee, Scheck, Ito, Fuhrman. A weird alphabet: DNA, O.J., A.C., L.A.P.D., the N word. All are signposts to a greater geography, one uneasily contained on the premises of the California Superior Court. Television viewers saw the proceedings and were captured by the legal dramatics; and yet there were always hints of unseen details and untold tales...
...scientists, is actually one of nature's most dazzling and precious creations. Today researchers are striving to correct common misapprehensions about them--and racing to save them from extinction. Last week in Boston, the largest ever convocation of bat experts met to trade new findings from the weird and wonderful world of bats. Among recent discoveries...
Apart from the fact that they both have weird things on their chins, actors ETHAN HAWKE and Kirk Douglas have little in common. But the similarities doubled when Little, Brown announced that it had bought the first literary work by the thinking teenager's sex symbol (Douglas is the proud author of three novels). Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is described by its editor, Jordan Pavlin, as being "about first love and heartbreak, about being turned inside out by the intensity of your own emotion." Little, Brown paid about $300,000 for the novel, roughly 60 times the advance...
...weird place to be because in pop, women are always an endangered species. From Elvis to Eddie Vedder, modern pop has been a guy's game; the primal image is of a man and his guitar, the tortured satyr and his magic lute. And the women? They can scream in the audience or maybe sing backup. In childhood girls are no more encouraged to pick up a Les Paul Black Beauty than pilot an F-16. They are expected to play only one instrument: the voice...
...Clarissa--that's kind of weird--black turning into yellow," one student says...