Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under a dusting of dirty snow in New York City's Flushing Meadow Park, some weird and wonderful construction is going on. More than 30 pavilions for the 1964-65 World's Fair are currently abuilding, and President Robert Moses has told the fair's board of directors that ground will be broken for 75 more within a couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some...
...Buddy Glass, the compulsively garrulous chronicler of the Glass family might admit, it is very, very, very true that a large segment of the U.S. young is hung on old Buddy and his six weird brothers and sisters...
...Horror. Harsh as these appraisals were, they sounded like popguns in comparison to the detonations that greeted his end-of-the-week budget message. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock all but kissed the U.S. goodbye. "Item by item," wrote Krock, "the budget reflects the weird and incessantly disproved economic theory that government can bestow all these material benefits without a grim reckoning at any time in the future. It is the death of a viable economy that is risked by the items which pile on the billions." Predicted the Omaha World-Herald: "If his proposed budget is adopted, America...
...door to the science fiction room. He peered in at a lurid wall of magazines and paper novels. Some new stuff had come in, garishly decorated with girls in scanty space suits under attack by lusting Venusian monsters. He glanced once more to make sure the complete set of Weird Tales Magazine hadn't disappeared and then stepped nonchalantly into the elevator and rode it to the second floor above ground...
...while, a small side-stage group of instrumentalists brews a weird and furious counterpoint of sound. The drum mer underscores and paces the action with the charged beat of an Oriental Gene Krupa. After its two-week stay in Manhattan, the Foo Hsing Theater, which has toured the U.S. from coast to coast and toast to toast, opens in Mexico City...