Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...changed channels to catch a Miller spot, which proudly advertised: "Miller's Made The American Way." This really seemed weird. Why do some marketeers invent strange foreign-sounding names like Frusen Gladje when their products are such American staples as ice cream, while other enterprising capitalists like the Miller people focus on their product's domestic origin? And why do this for beer, when it is generally acknowledged that Bavaria is the beer capital of the known universe...
...after all, that weird guy who did those soup cans a quarter of a century (was it really that long?) ago. The working-class hero, son of an immigrant Czech coal miner named Warhola in Pittsburgh, who for a time acquired a court that seemed almost Habsburgian in scope if not in distinction: the Velazquez dwarfs of the Factory. The guy in the photo with Madonna, Liza, Jackie O. The aesthete who said money was the most important thing in his life and in the future everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, thus offering a tacky sort of transcendence...
...more touching, ending with his tribute to her. When Nancy went onstage, Reagan appeared on the screen behind her, watching her on his hotel TV, and the crowd shouted and gestured her around to see him and hug the airy apparition above her. It was the consummation of the weird political transaction that was the Dallas convention...
...working my weekly 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. shift. Money is not what brought me here--at under $4 an hour Herrell's is no economic match for Mother Harvard's extravagant wages. Herrell's is purely an escape, a chance to be completely weird for six hours, and getting paid is just an excuse to indulge in the surreal pleasures of the ice cream world...
...hair. Revelling in the chaotic, carnival atmosphere I put up my sweatshirt hood to accentuate my insanity. This provokes customer comment. Customers never expect a reply. "He must be getting cold (snigger snigger)." My eyes roll, scoop clatters from my hand. "No I'm not. I'm just fucking weird." Nodding cowed agreement, the line moves on. Chuckling quietly, I return to my smooshing...