Word: weirder
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...killing a seven-year-old girl. After drowning his victim, he used her cell phone to take a digital photo of the body and to send the image to her mother with a text message saying, "I've got your daughter." In a country where truth is often weirder and more gruesome than fiction, few writers can compete with the stories on the evening news. The chilling exception is Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most popular authors. In Crossfire, her third novel to be translated into English, Miyabe's heroine, Junko, sets out on a killing spree through...
Tony has more teeth. Eleanor is bigger. Hector is weirder. As monsters go, Leonardo is simply terrible: he can't scare anyone. And no wonder. In Willems' witty, angular renderings, he is an adorable little terror. But he has a plan--to find "the most scaredy-cat kid in the whole world and scare the tuna salad out of him!" That leads him to Sam. After Leonardo performs a full repertoire of growls, glares and gesticulations, Sam bawls. Not because of Leonardo, alas, but because of a monumental toddler's hard-luck saga that he tells the monster...
...Weirder yet, people like that total jerk. In its first two weeks, Colbert's spoof of opinion shows drew 1.2 million viewers on average (The Daily Show pulls 1.6 million), more than double Comedy Central's rating for the 11:30 p.m. E.T. time slot a year ago. The network last week extended the show's eight-week run to a full year. It's a tribute to how well Colbert, 41, plays his gasbag alter ego--or to how annoyed his viewers are with the real-life gasbags whom he nails right down to their graphics. In the opening...
Barnes has found himself somewhat of an unlikely elder statesman in what remains of the many-trunked Elephant 6 scene. But the market for trippy harmonics that the Georgian collective once served has been cornered for the moment by even weirder psychedelic varietals, and the mantle that rests on Barnes’ shoulders comes now with slightly dimmed rainbow-watercolor sheen and a koan-like paradox. With the collective’s founders dispersed to side projects and Powerpuff soundtracks—or, in Jeff Mangum’s case, last sighted piloting a transatlantic aeroplane somewhere near Amelia Earhart?...
...proposes to his cousin Eleanor, who comes from an even weirder branch of the family. Her father Elliott, younger brother of President Theodore Roosevelt, was afflicted by alcoholism and drug addiction. Her mother's brother, Vallie Hall, liked to get drunk and fire his shotgun out the window...