Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Listen, man, I got this really far-out project called Brewster McCloud, right? It was written, if you can dig it, by the guy who wrote Skidoo. [There are cries of "Oh my God" from elsewhere on the bench.] Just cool it a minute. It's a really weird little number, man. I mean, it's like about this guy who lives in the basement of the Houston Astrodome and builds a pair of wings cause he wants...
HORNETS' NEST is a weird little war movie full of bizarre energy and merciless violence, a kind of Dirty Dozen Reach Puberty. The plot has to do with a group of Italian war orphans who capture a downed American paratrooper (Rock Hudson) and enlist his aid in wreaking bloody revenge on the Nazi occupation forces. There is one sardonic sequence where he teaches the kids to shoot machine guns and another, quite brutal, where they all joyously massacre a town full of Nazis. Director Phil Karlson's fadeout is hopelessly sentimental, and there is a subplot about...
Then the prosecution's last witness took the stand. He was James Dursi, 23, a rifleman in Calley's platoon, who recently applied for a job as a New York City cop. He reinforced the testimony of both Sledge and Turner, then added a weird example of the kind of transformation that men in combat can undergo. At one point, Dursi related, having rounded up a group of civilians, "Meadlo had them sitting on a dike [near the trail]. He was playing with the kids, giving them C-rations and candy like we always did." Calley arrived...
...Tattooist Lyle Tuttle, who is profiting handsomely from the resurgence. "Tattoos are merely another physical form of expression," he explains. "A way to say something intimately with your body." In the past year Tuttle has tattooed members of more than a dozen Northern California communes. "One group was really weird," he says. It "grooved on the cosmos−each one was tattooed with specified planets, and together they made up a kind of an astronomical map." Tuttle's most celebrated client was Blues Singer Janis Joplin, who sported a Florentine wristlet tattoo and had a small heart tattooed...
...These weird ironies are the vertebrae of many of Oates' best stories. Sometimes they protrude like irregular knobs; more often, they're slipped in, almost surreptitiously...