Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maternity pants, it must be admitted, remain a problem. Most of them have an elastic belly that looks like some weird kind of mutant marsupial pouch; even size 48s and a set of suspenders would be preferable. No haute couture designer has come up with an adequate solution to this challenge in aesthetic engineering, in part, because no designer-with the exception of Givenchy-seems especially interested in doing a special maternity line. Most, like Perry Ellis, are delighted to have their clothes adapted for maternity, but they show no inclination to dabble in the market...
...grin crosses Wilcox's face as he surveys the top floor of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. "There are a lot of wild, weird and wonderful things up here. We might even have the Raiders' Lost Ark stashed away some place, catalogued as miscellaneous archaeology...
...them. Am I Blue's Ashbe Williams is a wildly romantic teen-ager with a propensity for stringing Cheerios on a shoelace, then eating them. Pixrose Wilson, the ethereal urchin who attends The Wake of Jamey Foster, dreams of having a baby: half human, half sheep. Are they weird? Naaah, they are the most engaging bunch of eccentrics since the days of the young William Saroyan. Spend an evening with the Henley sorority and you will have the time of your life...
...wasn't fun," Watson Junior recalls. "It was weird. .interesting. . .but of course, we were supposed...
...treacherously icy roads and power outages. In Alabama, 46 National Guard armories served as shelters for the thousands whose heaters were useless in the widespread blackout, and Guardsmen carted generators to remote towns. Birmingham residents were shocked enough by the -2° cold, but then the weather became positively weird: multicolored lightning flashed in the night sky. Weathermen speculated that the colors resulted from light-refracting ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. Alabama Governor Fob James proclaimed a state of emergency and, in a televised address, chastened his constituents: "Don't get out unless you absolutely have...