Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weird Hours...
...last I'd heard it was a little weird," University Police Chief David L. Corski said of the thefts. "Some things had turned up missing and we were trying to find them...
...adult heroes in the book become weird variants of Groucho Marx, perhaps spawned by Michaels' boyhood watching the Yiddish theater: wise guys who fast-talk on capitalist society's turf and win. In "Reflections of a Wild Kid," Michaels's persona makes it with an ex-girlfriend by removing the woman's present boyfriend, a nerdish college professor. The persona's method: piss out the window of the woman's apartment, hide in the closet and let the police seize the wrong man--the boyfriend--when they come around. Michaels describes this as "genius...
Never bats an eyelash, old Charles, and he doesn't through Hard Times, either, except for a flicker of weird warmth that runs across his eyes at the beginning of the film. You aren't quite sure you've seen it, this tiny dilation, but in the first few moments, when a train whistle moans rudely from behind a curve of track in southern flatland and moves into view, a shabby Bronson leaning from the boxcar wearing a cap scrunched down...these few moments of Bronson, and the rustle in his expression when the train rolls by two wastrel children...
...made us drive. He made us all drive." These two-lane odysseys without destination only reinforced Springsteen's already flourishing sense of displacement. "I lived half of my first 13 years in a trance or something," he says now. "People thought I was weird because I always went around with this look on my face. I was thinking of things, but I was always on the outside, looking...