Word: weirded
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...Pluto on a telescopic photograph, nine planets. Memorizing those nine names has long been a childhood rite of passage, up there with learning to tie your shoes. Yes, Pluto was always an oddball: not only is it tiny (two-thirds the size of our moon), but it has a weird, elongated orbit that is tilted at a sharp angle to the plane the other planets inhabit. Still, the gap in size between Pluto and the biggest asteroids was comfortably huge...
...ignore bad stuff whenever you think it’s coming and that’s a bad thing,” she should dump Armstrong and find a new boyfriend. And if it is meant to be a reference to the weather, well, that’s just weird. Plus, she needs a new weathervane...
...lover of drama, the convoluted love triangle between Walter’s wife, Toni (Rene Russo), Brandon, and Walter should have kept me on the edge of my seat or at least, interested. And yet, more often than not, I found myself checking my watch. The weird sexual subplot between youthful Brandon Lane and middle-aged Toni Abraham is unbelievable and kind of grotesque. As Walter says in the movie to his wife, “I’m like Brandon’s father… I guess that would make you his mother, right, Toni...
...named Kevin developed a crush on me. At first, his actions were only slightly strange—he gave me a troll doll at graduation; he commented that he liked my outfit; he asked my friend if I might be interested in him. Then things started to get weird. He called me everyday—five times—and left messages. He wrote a screenplay and read it to me—and then told me it was about me and him, and our future life together. Ok, so he wasn’t exactly sane. But the point...
...last Saturday night, a Harvard College administrator had to stop and wince. He was standing at the back of Redline with an undergraduate, two architects, and an FM reporter, which was weird enough, but not the problem.The problem was an inch of amber-colored scotch. “This is the strongest drink I’ve ever had,” he said.Well, replied the older architect, 20 years his senior, strong was going to be necessary. They were about to go to a “Saved By the Bell”-themed party in Eliot House?...