Word: weirdness
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...blister"), and lead singer Josh Grier has the same dry, almost cracking voice as David Byrne. What's original is Tapes 'n Tapes' ability to spin out compelling little mood fantasias, from the spooky isolation of Omaha to the drunken, bluesy instrumental Crazy Eights. The Loon feels eremitic and weird but warm...
...words, just talk about Wade as Wade. "To me, it's still crazy when I walk around and I see people wearing my jersey, people wearing my shoes," said Wade, whose jersey sales are tops in the NBA, and who has a sneaker contract with Converse. "It's still weird to me but I'm sure some kid will go out in the backyard and try to be like me, and that's great." An NBA great who is startled by his own stardom? Now that's rarefied...
...That was in the 1960s. Modern Eton is less of a hothouse, less self-involved and all-consuming. "You hear about weird stuff like [what happened to Fraser] from a long time ago, but I never heard anything like that happening when I was there," says a student who finished in 2004. The practice of "fagging," where younger boys acted as servants to older ones, ended in 1980; now two incidents of bullying a younger boy can result in expulsion. Corporal punishment is banned. The boys are allowed out more on weekends. A Muslim tutor was recently appointed. The role...
...latter is Michael Gow aged 6, holidaying near Ulladulla on the New South Wales south coast, though that's about all the Australian playwright can remember. "In my memory, Christmas holidays went from about 1959 to 1970," recalls Gow, 51. "There's just this kind of weird dream...
...Still, not everybody who can do accents can do everything else she can. Brave is the person who tries to analyze what makes Streep's performances so remarkable. But Tony Kushner, who wrote Angels in America and is translating Mother Courage, gives it a whirl. "She does that weird thing that really great actors can do that really good actors can't. It's the ability to do two, three or four things at once. To create these moments of human behavior that are so layered and so deep that they're ambivalent: confusion and contradiction, heartbreak...