Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Totally baseless," Belt charged. "No college professor ever suggested such a thing." He also labelled false such assertions that Adams drove a neurotic alligator to Nevada, built booby traps for Halloween Prankaters, and made over $10,000 on similar weird jobs last year...
Professor Kluckhohn insisted that human families throughout the world are all organized as to form and function in essentially the same manner. No matter how weird or barbaric certain family structures may seem to the western eye, they are all really "variations on a basic theme...
...painter named William James Hubard, who died there in 1862. Hubard had painted gloomy but perfectly proper portraits of Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay and Richmond belles for a living; evenings he turned his hand to what he called "Gothick" fantasies. A few, like his Silent Violinist (see cut), were weird enough to recall his melancholy contemporary, Edgar Allan...
Colder & Colder & Colder. Trees, which gleamed like great crystal chandeliers and creaked like windmills, broke down by the thousands under their enormous loads of ice. Sagging power and telephone lines were carried away by crashing limbs. In hundreds of towns the night sky was lit by the weird blue flash and flare of high-voltage electricity. Lights went out, telephones went dead and electrically operated oil burners stopped running. Harassed storekeepers were deluged with demands for candles and axes...
Several other films, both American and foreign, would, in any ordinary year, be on a ten-best list; there were also some unusually good tries, and some well-made minor pictures. The French Zero De Conduite, a weird, anarchic comedy about schoolboys, was made 14 years ago by the late, inspired Jean Vigo. First shown in the U.S. last summer, it was a box-office flop. But it was one of the most original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming...