Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan, Carter's certain Republican opponent, has been talking up a 30% slash in income tax rates phased in over three years, which the White House views as inflationary. Thus the stage is set for a weird role reversal: the Republican candidate assailing a Democratic President for fighting inflation by inducing unemployment; the President countering by accusing the Republican of proposing inflation to combat recession...
...heart of this weird scene stands a mechanical bull that bucks and cork screws in a very good approximation of a real rodeo bull. Riding it, the urban cow boy literally risks his manhood and, of course, gains the admiring attention of the urban cowgirls. Some of them also try their luck on this contraption and this threatens the males...
...blazing blue eyes, she was already a siren. Her conversation shone, her profile was just short of perfection. To make it impeccably Grecian, she had wax injected at the bridge of her nose. As the years passed it began to trickle chinward, ravaging her features. Yet a weird, mutilated beauty survived...
...WEIRDNESS IS "Dr." Hunter S. Thompson's trademark. The father of New--or what he calls "Gonzo"--Journalism, Thompson helped shatter the image of the solemn, mild-mannered reporter by writing pieces that would have turned Clark Kent's blue hair white. As a Rolling Stone correspondent and in his Fear and Loathing books, he chronicled his lavatory run-ins with Richard Nixon and George McGovern and his experiences with grass, mescaline, acid, cocaine, uppers, downers, Wild Duck, Budweiser and ether. In between trips, he produced some of the most incisive perceptions of the sixties and early seventies in print...
...Thompson's vision. Where the Buffalo Roam ignores Thompson's peculiar optimism, his cynical idealism that makes him distrust the system but hope obstinately for something better. The only insight the film makes into Thompson's character comes when, reflecting upon his bizarre adventures, he sighs, "It never got weird enough...