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Word: weird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leftovers by the movement's chef d'ecole, Mike Kelley. In the past few years, Kelley has become the most influential American artist of his generation. This doesn't mean that he's good all the time or even much of it -- only that he has strong lungs, a weird confessional talent and a lot of imitators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dolls and Discontents | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...weird, confessional work of Mike Kelley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Ever since Thanksgiving I've been having this weird dream. The turkey on the platter gets up, turns into a live turkey, and starts growing into a giant bird. It then starts talking to me and making moral judgments about my life, even about the person I'm seeing. I try and get the turkey to shut up but it won't. I try and run away but it follows me. I'm getting really tired of this. Is there anything I can do to make this turkey stop haunting me? I've tried sleeping with the light on, eating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So How Does He Floss? | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...past several years, literally thousands of people -- mostly women in their 20s, 30s and 40s -- have been coming forward with accusations that they were sexually abused as children, usually by members of their own family, at home or, in many cases, at hidden sites where weird rituals were practiced. Says McHugh, "It's reached epidemic proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repressed-Memory Therapy: Lies of the Mind | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...relentless stream of outrageous books, movies and television shows, beginning with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published 61 years ago, and continuing through the summer's box-office behemoth, Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love stories -- even a sci-fi parody of an old pop song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning Classics | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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