Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more daring, a little more imagination on Schlesinger's part. He might have forsaken the gaudy, lush colors with which he chose to evoke Hollywood for something simpler, more barren, might even have filmed it in black and white, thereby allowing his excellent cast to draw their weird, surrcal characters against a stark background instead of having them clash confusingly with their environment. He would have done well to have completely eliminated Tod and had more confidence in his own cinematographic eye to paint the spectacle...
...voted to expel Smithies, but they allowed him to speak first. "It was rather reassuring, in a way," he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember just what he said, but the occupiers evidently weren't sympathetic--"all I remember is that it was philosophically weird," one of them said recently...
...Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple of newly acquired guinea pigs that soon become the center of the family life. Our clerk works in a weird bank; enigmatic employees of the bank walkd out everyday with some of the bank notes in their pockets. Sometimes the money is confiscated by the guards at the exit, but the whole thing seems absurd since the guards don't return it all to the bank. What an economist would...
...results of this non-literary effort--objects produced by the students who work in the weird building under the auspices of the off-key department--make up a strange kind of art exhibit. The First Annual Spring Show of Student Work, put together by the Carpenter Center Students Association, doesn't center on any special theme or expose any new trend in modern art. It's a bunch of stuff done by people who like to create in a visual way and are learning new ways to do so. Some of the works are class assignments, some aren't. Some...
...obviously a cut-and-paste job that you wince. The special effects are on the Star Trek level--somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building as the pressure breaks open huge wounds in the glass skin of the building and huge windows pop in series. Later, as the fire becomes white hot, the spectral...