Word: weirded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trademarks of their style has been to use celebrities that the public is already familiar with in a completely different context. Kareem Abdul Jabbar is the best example from Airplane!. Naked Gun features cameos from "Weird Al" Yankovic, the late John Houseman and others. Working with Priscilla Presley, Zucker told the audience at a recent preview, was great. "She was sweet...the only problems were when Elvis visited...
...competence. Dukakis, instead of recruiting the energies of his party's most zealous wing, as Bush had done by including Robertson's troops, was telling them in effect to get lost, or at least to lose their labels, while promoting his own credentials as a manager. It was a weird rallying cry: "Let Michael be Michael...
...Arrow Pub (Arrow St.). A weird mix between bikers and Harvard students. Pitchers of beer are really cheap...
Connecticut's Lowell Weicker, the most liberal Republican in Congress, faces opposition from State Attorney General Joseph Lieberman, a moderate-liberal Democrat backed by a weird combination of political forces. Even National Review Editor William F. Buckley--who can't stand Weicker--supports the Democrat in what may be the best modern example of politics making strange bedfellows. Lieberman is running even with veteran Weicker in the polls, but even if the incumbent loses, conservative Republicans won't be too upset...
...actually been to, they'll be clear--the gold dome of the State House, restaurant lights at Faneuil Hall, tile mosaics in the T, that huge cantilevered sculpture thing in front of the aquarium. Whatever. The secondhand knowledge you have about Boston, as a center for culture, weird Irish politicians or cramped New England architecture, will be far less vivid to you than the things you've actually seen...