Word: weirded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Suddenly, though, weird things started happening. A line drive on the final out of the seventh by New York's Marius Russo shattered the kneecap of Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, who had shut out the Yankees in Game Three. New York scored the deciding run via four straight singles off luckless reliever Hugh Casey in the eighth...
...played and who he was. Chamberlain hardly ever got into a fight--partly because only the ostentatiously suicidal would start up with him, more because he seemed to appreciate the gentleness that his construction required. He picked opposing players off the floor when they tripped and fell. That weird shot of his--the monstrous and graceful Dipper Dunk--had the look of a man pouring lava from a vat into a teacup...
...driving his John Deere lawnmower 350 miles to see his estranged brother. Alvin turns out to be your basic Lynch hero: a Kyle Maclachlan type, as average as apple pie, who follows his obsessions to heaven or hell. The supporting cast is normal too--and thus vastly weird, because Lynch presents them, as he did the sickos of Blue Velvet, without comment or condescension...
...seconds into the game, Webster scores. Senior Patrick Hunt is up in the stands, giving science teacher Marty Walter a hard time. She could pass for a student herself, but to him she's still Mrs. Walter, and it's weird to see her here, out of the box, not talking in that biology voice. "It'll be easier after you graduate," she tells him. "What," he says, "like, we're going to be friends with you guys?" and she laughs and says, "Nah, we don't want you as friends either," and you realize these are the teachers...
...Someone not very nice once succinctly enumerated our contemporary tendencies "toward the literal, the conformist, and the amnesiac." Although the first two trends are probably guiding your dismissal of this as weird and poorly written--and much of it is--I've been dealing mainly with the last one. I can exhort you now to learn about your institution. It's not the biggest news, but go comb through the Crimson archives and find out that students picketed for hot breakfasts in the '70s, that a Funk Concert Happening did it in your earhole in Dunster a decade...