Word: weirder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...metaphysical catfight engaged moral extremes that put William J. Bennett's The Book of Virtues on the best-seller list for the entire 52 weeks, while the world watched a regular Ring cycle of gaudy, televised, weirder- than-fiction unvirtue. The Nicole Brown Simpson murder was merely the most riveting segment...
...process, Gingrich, a man willing to stick out his tongue at some venerable American institutions, has become a sort of Establishment guerrilla, attacking the institutions he badly wants to lead. In the election year of '94, when the Capitol dome appears in campaign commercials as something weirder and more sinister than Dracula's castle, Newt's Congress-bashing strategy is bearing fruit. It's the Gingrich gospel you hear in the words of voters like David Bywater, 26, a Nebraskan who is supporting Republican newcomer Jan Stoney against Senator Bob Kerrey. "Seniority means you've been around too long...
...Sammells, who is a co-chair of HRSFA, says"I don't really think that [Folk and Mythconcentrators] are weirder than everyone else,although we certainly do get that reputation...
...Even weirder: I was digging a hole to set a boulder in. I was wearing a head-net to keep off the flies. And someone stopped and said, "Are you digging for bees?" They were really scared...
Bush turned down hundreds of personal-appearance requests that were deemed "unpresidential" by aides, but the Clintonites say they will agree to almost anything. "The weirder, the better," said a booker. In early February Clinton appeared in a promotional teaser for a sports-blooper show on a TV station in Birmingham, Alabama. "Just watching one of my regular White House jogs would make your Hall of Shame," plugged Clinton...