Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forebears were Northumberland farmers, and at first young Ralph dreamed of becoming nothing more eccentric than a pharmacist. Then he saw a production of Hamlet in which the leading actor drew his sword and scraped it against the floor of the stage. This weird and wonderful noise mesmerized the teenager, and he resolved to take to the stage. With no schooling in the dramatic arts, Ralph had literally to buy his way into an amateur repertory company. His audition speech drew this appraisal from the company's manager: "It's frightful, Richardson. You could never, never be any good...
...young, and they are: the average age is 20. One night Keith Lewis, 19, and three companions were savoring field-ration brownies in their bunker when a shot rang out near by. They leaped to their feet, then started giggling, realizing they had nowhere to run. "It's weird in the dark," says Lewis. "We get to laughing a lot." The men are, however, aging quickly. Captain Paul Roy, the company commander, gathered his troops a few days ago in a memorial service for two of the Marines killed in action. He read eulogies to them in the clear...
...July 31, after 10 hr. 1 min. of dodging cirrus clouds to avoid icing, Taylor became the first person to reach the Pole in a plane so small. "I overflew it, identified it, took some pictures and got the hell out," he said. "That's a really weird place...
...shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird. I'm in a strange barn, shoveling hay for an elephant that belongs to a nigger." Meanwhile, Suder has decided to build a pair of wings and fly over a nearby body of water called Ezra Pond...
...love and religion, while a bouncy chorus invokes "God and man" as if they were the co-owners of the corner candy store. Let's Dance, a love song rilled with the promise of passion and the threat of impermanence under "this serious moonlight," has one of those weird, hypnotic choruses that uses the colors and objects of dreams like surrealistic talismans: "Let's dance/ Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...