Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York has Greenwich Village for weird, farout movies and revivals, Cambridge has the Orson Welles, and Harvard has, well, its house film societies. From Mather House to North House, the popcorn flows and the movie shows almost every weekend night...
...snatch them away from the sight and rescind the thing they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...
Finkelstein says undergraduates are not allowed to handle disciplinary hearings, but can represent inmates at parole recission and revocation hearings. "At first [being an undergraduate] was really weird. Everyone assumes you're a law student," Finkelstein says. But she says that PLAP has allowed her to be on the board of directors for two years, and that "the people here are incredibly warm. I think that's a real contrast to the general kind of competitive and cut-throat attitude at Harvard...
Although some of the 42-14 overall discrepancy in free throw attempts was due to intentional fouling by the Crimson late in the ballgame, part of the rest may be attributable to some officiating that can only be described as "weird...
...state's Republican Governor and Democratic legislature struggled over a prison-reform bill. The corrections commissioner, Stephen Norris, was ordered jailed for contempt of court. Although Norris was spared a five-day prison sentence by an appeals court, Governor Lamar Alexander called the incident the "most bizarre, strange, weird and unusual set of events I've seen as Governor...