Word: weirder
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Sanders characterized Quarterly writing as "perhaps weirder but definitely more direct. Our pieces tend to be raw, funnier and embodying a certain feeling of cutting loose...
...couldn't happen to a weirder film. Just try to imagine a 1962 audience sitting down to this scene: a company of G.I.s sprawl half-dozing through a women's-club lecture in a New Jersey hotel. The camera pans 360 degrees around the room and back to the soldiers and the speaker, who is now revealed as a Chinese specialist in mind control. He orders Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey) to shoot one of his men, and the victim's brains splatter across a poster of Stalin. What's going on here? And what is one to make...
...worst are the visigoths of vapidity that have been catapulted by hypertrophied marketing corportations into the realm of the so-called cutting edge. The search for multi-million record sellers has truly created some strange monsters. Nothing in the cultural history of the Western world, for example, could be weirder than the spectacle of Michael Jackson, a man who has changed his race via countless operations on his face, singing "I'm looking at the man in the mirror/...I'm gonna make a change.." completely seriously. Not only is Michael Jackson a semi-human entity who makes the headlines...
...Spain, though he probably knew the copy of Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St. Peter, which had been praised by his teacher in Seville, Francisco Pacheco. The crucified Peter who materializes upside down in a reddish visionary fog to the entranced St. Peter Nolasco in one of Zurbaran's weirder paintings -- an astonishing prophecy of late Dali as well as an echo of Caravaggio -- must have been inspired by that copy...
...purloined child growing up to be a college football star and an old couple with funny names surrounded by a loving family they can never have. "It ain't Ozzie and Harriet," Hi had said earlier of his tattered family portrait. But it's a lot funnier, weirder and more exuberantly original. Just like this movie...