Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while this film surely lacks the polish of his later work, it has more of the wild, reckless humor and endless one-liners that made Woody famous before everyone knew he was neurotic and an intellectual, too. In this one, he plays a nebbish, of course, who by weird circumstance ends up leading a Latin American revolution and reclaiming his lost sweetheart (Louise Lasser). Best moments Howard Cosell covering the assassination of a banana republic dictator and Woody ordering 500 hamburgers to go, 300 with cole slaw...
Pianists Hancock and Corea defend their fusion music as a logical extension of the jazz musician's fascination with sound. In 1973, when jazz was suffering the financial blues, Hancock had the idea of using the synthesizer's weird, spacey sound not with the complex experimental music that he was then making but with funk and rhythm-and-blues. It turned into Head Hunters, made up of more conventional music that "a lot of people liked." Corea went roughly the same route. His recent Mad Hatter album, a lush blend of strings that borders on background music...
...will at three different locations. His mysterious captors not only wanted to break up his marriage, he said, but to talk him out of his new-found religion. He had been the victim of a bizarre and forceful "deprogramming" technique, he claimed. Levitt was no convert to a weird new cult, however, but a Jew who had lately converted to Christianity and wanted to marry a Gentile...
...excerpts of Nixon's memoirs are so thoroughly and predictably disappointing. In a dull, clipped prose more reminiscent of Jerry Ford speaking off-the-cuff than his own roiling Pat Buchanan-William Safire speeches or football-fuck-em vernacular, nothing of the real Nixon emerges. The weird intensity, the paranoid desperation of the man who believed he always knew the right answer, and alone could act upon it, is gone. Instead, we are given a shallow, simplistic portrait of events, with the personality of the Great Vindictor sucked clean out of them. By contrast, the David Frost television interviews were...
...think I feel relatively confident," Rothstein said yesterday. "Quinsigamond is a weird lake--there can be a head wind in the middle where the top seeds are, while the rest is flat, calm water. In equal conditions we're going to be hard to beat. We're psyched, and we're still getting faster--I think...