Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like most everything else about Lorrie Moore's collection of short stories from the title on, this subversively weird choice of quotes (the third one comes from Butchering Livestock at Home) is at once whimsically ironic and bitterly true. Moore's basic here and throughout is that can be as radical radical and ridiculous as the globular mollusk's loss of a tentacle during sex. The stories deal with pain of the most banal and yet terrible sort--the pain of relationships and marriages gone bad, of broken families...
...first time in more than a year, Christopher L. Moore '86 isn't involved in a theater production. "It's a weird feeling," he says. "I'm doing nothing but schoolwork...
...teenager Pfiliades this is no problem in fact, she says, she thinks it's fun to have to try on the clothes on the selling room floor. As Harler says, "This is a drawback only for people with weird bodies...
...placing second three straight years. Another incongruity, a slightly troubling one, has to do with the fact that nine black men and Bird started the last All-Star game. Granting it is unseemly, is it even conceivable that the best basketball player in the world is white? "It's weird," agrees Marques Haynes, the old Fabulous Magicians barnstormer, a neutral expert, "but it's true...
Others will go to the extreme of playing alone, he says, adding, "playing with yourself, so to speak, is pretty weird." Another tactic is talking about the theory of the game while away from the table, says Jacobsen. "There's not really a heck of a lot to say about foosball which makes talking about it so surprising," he adds...