Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blessing and the mystery of Wise Blood is that it deftly avoids any established category. It is weird. Huston paces his film like a front porch tale-teller sliding through the story with a quiet drawl but leaps out of his rocker to flare with hellfire often enough to keep us nervous, wide-eyed and fascinated...
Americans have contemplated this annus mirabilis of weird weather with a special fascination. But even when the barometer is less mercurial, they pay almost abnormal attention to the weather's moods and the people who predict them. Americans have become chronic weather junkies. They monitor it the way a hypochondriac listens to his own breathing and heart-beat in the middle of the night. Some people, of course, have an urgent need to know: boatmen, farmers, construction workers, streetwalkers. But others whose daily exposure to the hazards of the open air is limited to three minutes between bus stop...
Moreover, Mr. Counter offers more polemic and unqualified statements to his readers. He claims that "the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing." I believe that Mr. Counter is not qualified to describe Germany's filmmakers as a group of weird intellectuals that are primarily preoccupied with obscene topics. Most connoisseurs of the new German film scene would disagree with Mr. Counter's erroneous statement...
Many Nobel winners are taking a dim view of Graham's project. Stanford's Burton Richter (Physics, 1976) reports that his students are beginning to ask whether he supplements his salary with stud fees. "It's somewhat weird," he says. "What they are trying to do is create an intellectual superman, and selecting winning Nobel Prize scientists is not the way to do it." Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964) of the University of California at Berkeley dismissed the project as "snobbish," and the Salk Institute's Dr. Renato Dulbecco (Medicine, 1975) disqualified himself. Said...
...Malaysian people think Harvard students are snobby and weird because they go to the most expensive school and have to study so much," Poh Lin Khoo, one of a group of 76 visiting foreign high school students, said yesterday...