Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find of the evening is John Cassisi's heart-wrenching Herschel--his breath rushing to catch up with his voice, his voice fighting to keep up with his thoughts before people stop listening and go away, with the underlying sadness of a kid who knows he's fat and weird and feels compelled to be the first to point...
...CHALLENGE such an overwritten characterization? Not really, though Golding descends to verbose depths more than once, at one point calling his Hell the "inchoate unorchestra of the lightless spaces." He gets away with such a weird combination of words and images only because it parallels the confusion and discomfort that his characters express in their infernal discoveries...
...themes with solemn thoroughness. It's a clever idea to present a choreographer's nightmares as gaudy, Dantesque versions of Busby Berkeley, but the movie has four of these sequences and they're not short. (They account for approximately 30 minutes.) Fosse has never before failed to find weird beauty in sleaze, but these numbers are gaudy and ugly beyond the call of duty, cinematically uninteresting despite the cutting and zooming, and they're horribly didactic. (The funniest thing in them is Gideon's daughter singing, "You better stop screwing around, Daddy...
...very weird year. "There was a sense everywhere, in 1968," Garry Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes, "that things were giving. That man had not merely lost control of his history, but might never regain it." That feeling permeated the New Hampshire campaign of Eugene McCarthy. Seeing a chance to "change the world, rearrange the world" and drive Lyndon Johnson back to the ranch, hundreds of student supporters invaded the state. Huntley-Brinkley brought Vietnam home every night in living color, and the McCarthy kids knocked on doorfronts to remind New Hampshire that now was the chance to stop...
...Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism and surrealistic wit. Huston takes to O'Connor's hothouse style like a gambler to a royal flush. The inevitable results are the very essence of weird...