Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anderson himself seems to have inherited a remarkable collection of genes. "I was rather a weird little boy," he admits. A child prodigy in Tulsa, he could read, write, add and subtract before kindergarten, and was devouring college science books when he was eight -- skills, he says, that "did not endear me to the other schoolchildren of Oklahoma." He was also a stutterer, which made him a target of taunts. But that didn't bother him, he says, "because I considered everybody else in the world stupid...
...think one of my pupils is larger than the other. No, not that one, the other one. See? Isn't that weird...
Your pupils are not weird...
...transformed America. Forget the Bauhaus and your house -- it is the Vegas aesthetic, architecture as grandiose cartoon, that has become the American Establishment style. And so the splendidly pyramidal new Luxor and cubist new MGM Grand (both the work of local architect Veldon Simpson) do not seem so weird, since equally odd buildings now exist all over the place...
...gathered enough information about Hannah's life, Venn will be able to program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern narrative voice, one that is simply unworkable, intrusive, and weird. Mukherjee's attempt to encapsulate the essence of a contemporary American context fails and indeed takes away from her mastery over the other historical contexts with which she is working...