Word: weirdness
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That passion, curiously, is expressed in each show through strong women. A gay man, says Ball, can see men through a straight woman's eyes--"We understand how weird men are"--but he believes he can also view women with greater detachment. "Once you remove the illusory screen of romantic projection, there is a person," he says, "and it's easier for a gay man to see the person in a female character." And, says Showtime entertainment president Robert Greenblatt, gay writers are more inclined to think about gender roles and stereotypes. "Straight men don't think about gender...
...ready, chasing stray pets. He did it as if he were the action hero in a hunt-'em-down video game, tracking the creatures with an aggression that for a 7-year-old boy might have been charming, if a bit creepy. In a grown man, it was just weird. The true 7-year-olds knew it too--kids in the area made up a game called Hide from Dennis, taking cover whenever they saw his white van approach...
...writing style is quite minimalist on the surface, with hints of conflict or tension tucked away," he says. "That's something I have in common with classic Japanese settings. It's like a typical, old-fashioned Japanese house; it seems bare, but open a cupboard and all kinds of weird things come tumbling out." Weird things, indeed. In Never Let Me Go, teachers at an English boarding school in the late 1960s constantly tell the children that they are "special." Only trouble is, "special" has a very special meaning at this particular school. The children are, in fact, clones, genetically...
Despite his hippie breeding, de la Durantaye nonetheless learned certain bourgeois sports—like baseball and tennis—from his more traditional grandparents. Although he played baseball seriously, he quit in an “act of weird rebellion” against his father, who had once seriously considered becoming a professional baseball player himself. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Despite his hippie breeding, de la Durantaye nonetheless learned certain “bourgeois” sports—like baseball and tennis—from his more traditional grandparents. Although he played baseball seriously, he quit in an “act of weird rebellion” against his father, who had once seriously considered becoming a professional baseball player himself...