Word: weirdness
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...average score from the breakdown, left Harvard with two scores of 19 in an 18-team regatta. However, instead of writing off the entire weekend based on these early setbacks, Porter and Schlitz were able to view their rough beginning in a positive light.“It was weird, because we were still really confident after those first two races, because we’d sailed so well—we probably would have had a first and a fifth,” Porter said. “You just have to put it aside and keep...
...BRAT PACK COLLECTION The movie that elicited the term Brat Pack for a bunch of young actors was actually St. Elmo's Fire. This set of three films--The Breakfast Club, Weird Science and Sixteen Candles--should be named for writer-director John Hughes, who zeroed in on the light side of teen angst, or Molly Ringwald, his russet-haired muse. Hughes got the social pain of class rivalries, puppy lust and ineffectual parents, making it all funny and agreeable. Sixteen Candles is his Cinderella, The Breakfast Club his No Exit and Weird Science ... well, that one's just weird...
...quit. I was an active member for a couple of months. Then I went inactive, which meant I stopped paying dues. I could still hang out at the club whenever I wanted, and the times I did go were fine and fun. But I never shook the weird feeling that when I was at the club, I was having a good time at the expense of those who could not join. The club started to make me feel ethically uncomfortable. The strange thing was, I had a feeling if I just pushed through that discomfort, I could get used...
...Winesaps--replacing the Red Delicious and Granny Smiths grown for long-distance trucking--apple consumption doubled. To be sure, some colleges find it easier and cheaper to install fast-food counters. And some students would just as soon dine on Kraft cheese and Cocoa Puffs ("This stuff is weird," grumbled University of Portland physics major David Baldwin, 18, sniffing at the salmon-fennel latkes). Even a few Yalies grouse that the all-local dining hall doesn't serve tomatoes in winter. "My generation knows how to put food in a microwave and eat in front of a computer screen," says...
...Report, the spin-off of Comedy Central's hit fake-news series The Daily Show. Still, after a while, he stops himself. "I think I need to start calling him Col-bear," says the actor, using the correct pronunciation of his surname, "and me Col-bert. It's getting weird...