Word: weirdest
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...weirdest talent in the show, because it is the most epic, obsessive and totally self-referential in its mixture of sadistic violence and kitsch daintiness, belongs to the Chicago recluse Henry Darger (1892-1973). Darger's rented apartment, after his death, turned out to be crammed with the output of a lifetime's obsession with innocence and violence, including a 15,000-page illustrated saga titled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, a sort of madman's Iliad of endless carnage between adults and moppets. No "mainstream" artist...
Perot brought his "Tell It to Hanoi!" campaign to the Texas state capitol in 1971 on what may still be the single weirdest day in the history of that peculiar institution. Jets roared over Austin in "missing man" formation, while beneath the rotunda, in hour after hour of bloodstained oratory, brows were darkened and teeth gnashed over the fate of Our Boys. It was a patriotic orgy, although, as the Texas Observer noted at the time, no one uttered a peep about exactly what Our Boys were doing over there when they got caught. One received the impression that they...
...this weird and wondrous season for the Atlanta Braves, the weirdest news yet came Tuesday: Deion Sanders, who left the team eight weeks ago to resume his NFL career, will play both sports for the duration of the NL West pennant race...
...brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation of the old Christian Broadcasting Network...
...over while their heads catch on fire. A painter who saw it commissioned Lynch to make another animated film. Lynch bought a camera and spent two months shooting before he realized the camera was broken. "It was one long piece of blurred film," he says. "But it was the weirdest thing; I wasn't one bit depressed...