Word: weirdly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take off on a fantastic musical trip-at least a million miles from the rhythm 'n' blues in which they are rooted. After an instrumental interlude that is something of a moaning, squawking nightmare, they ask: "Why don't we sing this song all together?" With weird blips and whooshes they describe the loneliness of being 2000 Light Years from Home and lament the computerization of 2000 Man ("'My name is a number, a piece of plastic film"). The prettiest number is She's a Rainbow, a shimmering love song with a Mozartean piano introduction...
...until page 45 of this vastly overpraised French novel does one learn that "this is the story of François Besson." This forthright statement is doubly reassuring, because it has been preceded by a weird and frenzied surrealistic opener in which the world crazily assumes the aspect of a petrified urban forest, "a deserted planet, full of signs and booby traps...
...National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (see color opposite). Gifted with pop art's most facile brush, Rosenquist was a smash with his first Manhattan show in 1962. His huge, bold panoramas combine the photo-simulated faces, glossily glamorized foods and chrome-plated gadgetry of Madison Avenue in weird compositions where objects seem to float off the canvas. In their own way, they are also a wry celebration of the way Americans view their kandy-kolored environment...
There is no doubt that LSD can have severe and harmful effects on the minds of those who take it. Last week not LSD but the fear of the potent hallucinogen caused such severe disturbance in the mind of a respected state official that he was involved in a weird deception...
...ichthyologist who first identified the coelacanth, a fish believed extinct for 70 million years; by his own hand (cyanide); in Grahamstown, South Africa. Until 1938, when a coelacanth was caught off the South African coast, scientists had seen it only in fossil form, a five-foot-long creature whose weird, leglike fins marked it a close relative of the amphibians that first linked sea and land animals. In the years since, a dozen coelacanths have been found, though Smith never realized his dream of studying one alive. His suicide did not surprise his wife. "He always thought," she explained, "that...