Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...single Exocet, the Stark, with a more durable superstructure and redundant protective systems, was hit by two missiles and still "sailed home under its own steam." Moreover, since the U.S. frigate was blindsided by a supposedly friendly plane, its defensive systems were never tested. "This is basically a weird exception," says Michael MccGwire, a naval intelligence specialist at the Brookings Institution. "Under normal circumstances the Stark would have blown the aircraft...
...Astros are making an different sort of change. Never again will fans see the weird orange and yellow stripes across the torso for both home and away games. Houston now wears all white at home and an unfamiliar cream on the road...
...Crazy time" is what Johnny Carson calls it when the comedy gets a bit weird on the Tonight show. But the real crazies rarely make it to Carson's stage. Goldthwait did have one Tonight appearance a year ago, when Joan Rivers was guest host, and some of his offbeat contemporaries can occasionally be seen in such hipper network venues as Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live. But increasingly, the showcase for innovative comic talent is cable, the Off-Broadway of TV comedy...
...clever enough to be an asshole but not strange or different enough to be interesting. He comes across just like hundreds of similar street thugs in hundreds of similiar books and movies. Like the book itself, he's not weird or eccentric enough to hold your attention for long...
...ARTHUR MILLER IS THE DEAN OF American playwrighting, and Tennessee Williams is the professor Emeritus, and Sam Shepard is the radical prof with the cowboy boots and the hash pipe, and Neil Simon the humanities lecturer with perfectly organized presentations and polished anecdotes, then Christopher Durang '71 is the weird kid in the back of the classroom with the odd possessed look...