Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that can boast only two Italian and one Chinese restaurant, Hemispheres is a whole new experience. Friends back home will think you've gone crazy when you rave about the asparagus sandwich called the Hemispheres Special, and you'll really jolt them when you go on babbling about such weird dishes as baba ganoosh, falafel, and baklava. Let them eat spaghetti...
...weird feeling, knowing that you can lose the guts of your act at any time," lamented rubbery-faced Impressionist David Frye last week. The guts of Frye's act, of course, were his look-alike impressions of former President Nixon, whose departure from Washington has sent Frye scurrying for tapes of Gerald Ford. He has already introduced the Ford voice into his nightclub act, but worries about the face. Muses Frye, "He looks like the guy in a science fiction movie who is the first one to see The Creature...
Personal revenge is still an acceptable motivation in an action movie. But Bronson is not looking for his wife's murderers, though they are so manifestly weird that any reader of Dick Tracy would have a fair chance of finding them. No, he has become an abstract symbol of quick justice in a setting where every bit player is careful to complain that the courts are too slow, the cops too dumb. Moreover, he quickly becomes a pop-cult hero, photographed against magazine posters acclaiming the salutary effect his work is having on the crime rate. Even the police...
...hotel, killing two Greek soldiers. Power at the Ledra was cut off, and reporters were unable to file their stories. Prager managed to phone Marmon at Efty's apartment to convey eyewitness accounts of the fighting. Marmon, in turn, though periodically distracted by "soldiers with a weird assortment of weapons drifting into the house," fed Prager's reports into Efty's telex machine - the only line out of Nicosia then available to journalists...
...time confides. But that is as much as either Bailey will allow in a book that is essentially an expansion of water-logged diaries kept during the trip, plus photographs, maps and useful illustrations. Just this capacity for even-keeled privacy seems to have pulled them through. "In some weird and detached way," Maralyn concludes, "we found peace in our complete and compulsory isolation." Mrs. Bailey admits that she is a fatalist. She also cannot swim. · R.Z. Sheppard