Word: weirder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only a matter of time before they sprout like mushrooms globally. Picture it: The House of Blues, Bangkok. It's hard to believe that the Blues has come all the way from the post-bellum Mississippi Delta to this corporate cul-de-sac, but I suppose weirder things have flickered onto the Big Board...
...last fall, a popular first-year property-law professor found his classes boycotted and picketed after he confessed in class that he didn't know enough about the laws of antebellum slavery to spend more than a single class on the topic. Even now, one of the school's weirder characters, Professor Derrick Bell, has taken a year's leave of absence to protest the absence of black women from the school's tenured faculty. (The New York Times and other newspapers have reported that Bell is self-sacrificingly forfeiting his salary; in fact, it is being quietly made...
...making realities collide, he slips you into a parallel world whose features are both precise and ineffably odd, where things are not what they seem. Ernst loved images that enumerated things: mechanical and scientific drawing, illustrations from 1900 boulevardier magazines, old catalogs. Their factual neutrality made their paradoxes weirder. Sometimes this serves mainly lyrical ends, as in the Klee-like plant-personages that rear up on the tiny horizon of Always the Best Man Wins, 1920. And sometimes it discloses an erotic fury, a Dionysiac madness bursting the collar studs and corsets of life, as in the collage-narrative...
When I moved to New York, back in 1961, I remember saying that 90% of the people walking along the street in Manhattan would be interviewed in any other town, and the other 10% would be arrested. It's got a lot weirder since then...
...course, it's got weirder everywhere since then. But someone in a silly getup in Houston or Cleveland or Denver has to be aware that everyone is looking at him. If a 300-lb. man costumed as Eleanor of Aquitaine walks onto a crosstown bus in New York carrying both an attache case and a rib roast, the other passengers might glance up for a second, but then they'd go back to their tabloids. If you asked the driver why he didn't seem to be registering such a sight, he'd say, "Hey, whadaya -- kidding? I seen...