Word: weirdness
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...outrages, their graphic ingenuity; saved them in meticulous stacks or mold-resistant wrappers. Then he hears his mother say she was cleaning up the basement and "I threw that junk out." Junk! the child cries. Those yellowing pages of newsprint, those copies of Mad and Vault of Horror and Weird Science were my obsession, my vocation, my youth...
...parents also have to be realistic about which holiday traditions to keep and which to ditch. The Greens, with newest member Nathaniel, 6 months, in tow, will be visiting Grandma again for Christmas but not staying in her condo. "It will be weird to be in a hotel while visiting home, but after last year, we swore never again," Cindy Green says. "Still, we want to celebrate the holidays with my mother. We've done that every year and hope to maintain the tradition...
European subsidies produce other weird anomalies. Europe is now the second largest sugar exporter in the world, from being a net importer 30 years ago. European sugar is made from sugar beets grown in such unlikely places as Finland, better known as a mobile-phone producer. That hurts poor countries much better suited to producing sugar, such as Haiti, Mozambique and Thailand...
Most visitors to North Korea find the place weird, but can't quite explain why. On a rare trip last month, another traveler told me it was like going to ?the moon, with people.? I had my own epiphany: North Korea is Pleasantville. Just as in the Gary Ross satire of the 1950s sit-com vision of reality, life in the kingdom of Dear Leader Kim Jong Il is always as pleasant as a picture postcard. The streets are tidy and orderly, the citizens patriotic and the children sing in perfect harmony. From the plastic flowers in the hotels...
...stories kept getting crossed.” So the roommates distracted Vick with questions while someone called HUPD. Alex J. Vannoni ’07 said that as they tried to keep Vick around until the police arrived, Vick was just “BS-ing them with weird answers.” “He wasn’t physical at all,” Vannoni said. “He was just trying to quietly get out of there.” Eventually, the police arrived, at which point they arrested him after checking him for outstanding...