Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Randy Newman. Randy Newman's a weird dude, what with songs about burning rivers, and fat freaks, and an epic about slavery, as well as Three Dog's own Mama Told Me Not to Come. He's got the warped perspective I've approached, but never duplicated. Forced, to sum him up, I'd say this: If he was my friend, and I had to introduce him to someone, I'd say: This is Randy Newman, one of the five weirdest people I know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled...
...depression. But Rosso's designs for the Galerie François Premier at Fontainebleau set the court style: the fantastic stucco cartouches, gilding and strapwork; the airless painted space, filled with large twisting bodies based on Michelangelo's figura serpentinata; the strained and tangled poses; the weird color, by turns opulent and acidly dry; the Biblical and classical allegories, recondite to the point of eccentricity. "A courtly art," observed Art Historian André Chastel, "always tends to develop a universe from which nature is absent"-and Mannerism was the courtliest and most artificial of styles. At Fontainebleau...
Both these plays, which are directed by Donnally Miller, stir up joy and insight in their minor way so naturally from the tenor of the moment and the color of the incident that plot summaries, for example, won't work on paper. It's all pretty weird...
There are some quiet laughs, and those ominous black campers exert a weird, compulsive kind of suspense, although they are a lot more intriguing in their cryptic malevolence than in the mundane explanation eventually dispensed by the scenarist...
...anthropologist named Carlos Castaneda and a mysterious old Yaqui Indian from Sonora called Juan Matus. In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery. They cover a span of ten years, during which, under the weird, taxing and sometimes comic tutelage of Don Juan, a young academic labored to penetrate and grasp what he calls the "separate reality" of the sor cerer's world. The learning of enlightenment is a common theme in the favorite reading of young Americans today (example: Hermann Hesse's nov el Siddhartha...