Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chores with the press ("Betcha I said something you can take out of context," he observes wearily), Clinton wanders over to a table where staffers are discussing their image as reported in the press. He claps James Carville, his chief political strategist, on the shoulder and says, "You weird guys gotta stick together...
Saturday night lying in my bed unable to sleep and suddenly profoundly disturbed...I can't say now that I didn't know that living with Nick would be weird, and suddenly, it seems that all the implicit dangers of placing the two of us in one room have been realized: He's in his bed whimpering like a baby and I can't stop shaking...
...voters, my annual foray into the democratic process is somewhat lacking in excitement. Some people get to go into booths, close the curtain and pull levers. I sit on my couch and poke a paper clip through a piece of paper. But that's not what Jeanne thinks is weird. What she finds amazing is the number of dots I poke...
...Pushmepullyou," if you didn't know, is a two-headed animal from the Dr. Doolittle stories; the Doctor is less a weird joke than a serious point of reference for GBV's achievements. Like the miraculous veterinarian, GBV main guy Robert Pollard has a respect for the diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team...
...Active's first three, or the few good Posies songs--Tommy Keene is where to start looking. People who do that sort of thing for a living have been scratching their heads for years about why this man has never had a hit (too pure? no sex appeal? no weird hats?); these people included one major record label, who scrapped Keene's contract only days after his last album came out, in 1988. Now he's back in the business, kicking around the independent music scene: The Real Underground collects 20-odd tracks from the start of his career (which...