Word: weirder
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...Iraq. But it also has ballast because it clarifies an aspect of George W. Bush's essential character - specifically, the problem he has with telling the truth. I am not saying Bush is a liar. Lying is witting: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." This is weirder than that. The President seems to believe that wishing will make it so - and he is so stupendously incurious that he rarely makes an effort to find the truth of the matter. He misleads not only the nation but himself. Every worst-case Saddam scenario just had to be true...
Rush and Depp offer a congenial collision of acting styles: the one purring with assured menace, the other weirder, more daring. In a role that requires him to be both the lead and the comic relief, Depp plays the roguish coquette, sporting another of his odd British accents (as in Sleepy Hollow and From Hell). Only he could make this spiked cocktail of quirks so potent and piquant. Now Pirates could give Depp what he may never have wanted: a movie franchise...
...these apocalyptic visions get you down. If you listen to the weirder radio talk shows, you know that the next real-life cataclysm won't come until Dec. 21, 2012 (something about the winter solstice and a Mayan prophecy). By then, Governor Schwarzenegger will be in his second term and eligible for Social Security...if there is Social Security. But that's a different nightmare. Or two. --By Richard Corliss
...judges during my interview, but I probably should have studied more. When Olympic swimmer Rowdy Gaines asked me to compare Secretary of State Colin Powell’s foreign policy to National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice’s, I almost laughed. Some of the other girls got even weirder questions. Heisman trophy winner Herschel Walker is fond of grilling contestants with church involvement on their resumes about obscure Bible passages. More than one of us walked out of that room in tears...
...exploited for centuries because their desert planet (Arrakis, or Dune) is the sole source of "spice," a substance that makes hyperspace travel possible, expands consciousness and extends life--it's oil, LSD and Botox all in one. (Spice is an excretion of Dune's giant sandworms, but people ingested weirder stuff for less benefit in the '60s.) Harnessing his powers and the Fremen's fanaticism, Paul leads a rebellion that makes him Emperor of the galaxy...