Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exception. The play's nemesis terrorizes the characters for two acts. (I was about ready to round up a posse from the audience and bind and gag him.) As a comedy of manners, The Nerd show-cases various quirks and idiosyncrasies possessed by different classes. Everyone is weird, the play seems to say. Well, yes, but not everyone exaggerates their weirdness and flings it in others' faces...
...claimed he was a UMass student taking a class in communications and that the assignment of the class was to meet as many people as possible to get over the fear of talking to people," Hyland Hunt '98 said. "It all sounded pretty weird...
...them inside out, even if most of his gangland wisdom came from a life of movie watching (he worked for five years in a video store). "I've seen what I've seen, and I've met the people I've met," he says flirtatiously. "I've been in weird situations. I'm not a hood, but I've seen fringe things here and there." And what he sees, he translates into sharp words, telling gestures, explosive images...
...students, and I was more the pot-smoking cool dude who hung around with the seedy element." As a teenager, Stipe wore unstylish corduroy pants with ribs as thick as ropes and drenched his hair with mustard. Despite that -- or perhaps because of it -- Buck found Stipe's "weird" taste in music appealing. All four eventually linked up at a party, discovered they shared musical interests and started a band...
Shouldn't the temporary or perhaps permanent loss of such ambitious and energetic talents be a cause of concern? Is the U.S. in danger of becoming in a possible future some weird, post-cold war colony, exporting its raw and not- so-raw material -- its educated young people -- and not even getting paid in return...