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Word: weirdly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feminism thrived at the Quad in the early '70s. At that time when Quad women organized the Women's Center. Joanne Tuller said, "Though many women were active in women's activities, weird things happen when women are in the minority." During these years, some River House male-to-female ratios were...

Author: By Emmy Goldknopf, | Title: The Quad: Off the Common Path | 3/7/1978 | See Source »

...inexplicable. Just as suddenly as he began, Teach stops, becoming apologetic. With all his bravado dissipated, he becomes pitiful...but why? The motivations remain cloudy, and so the ending, which features a confused Donny cradling the slightly dented Bobby in a touching Pieta pose, is ultimately unsatisfying and vaguely weird...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Wooden Buffalo | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...their heads, there is a really fantastic murder by electrocution, and they don't just dim the lights to let you know the juice is on, or anything corny. You get a head-on view of the dying guy, with some pretty good jerks and twitches, and really weird blue sparks coming out of his eyeballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brain Death | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...more Kafkaesque than the original. His dying wish was totalitarian. Before he was finally killed by tuberculosis in 1924, he entreated his friend Max Brod to burn his books-to destroy the unpublished masterpieces (The Castle, The Trial, Amerika) that posthumously raised his estate from weird minor talent working in the ruins of Austria-Hungary to premonitory genius of the century's blackest impulses. Brod of course refused; it remained for both the Nazis and the Soviets to suppress Kafka's works-a neat case of reality confirming the artist's point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius of the Blackest Impulses | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

...half my hair pulled out already! I'm not one of those girls that dyes her hair pink and orange and crawls all over the band members. I think that's disgusting. They think it's in 'cause they're doing it in England. I think it's weird. I went through a stage where I was shredding all my clothes. Then I saw how phony it was, how stupid...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Riding High on the New Wave | 1/25/1978 | See Source »

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