Word: weirdness
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...with the dossier. After a second session with Gilligan last Thursday, the committee's chairman declared his colleagues found him a "most unsatisfactory witness" who had changed his story, a charge Gilligan vehemently denied. Then Kelly's suicide put the dispute back on the front pages and in a "weird new dimension," says a Whitehall official. The Daily Mail's headline after he died captures the feverish anger at the government: proud of yourselves?, it reads, over pictures of Blair, Campbell and Defense Minister Geoff Hoon. At a press conference in Japan, on an Asian trip that seemed almost surreal...
...Earle has always been a little weird. A close observer of Texas politics e-mailed this description of him: "Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...
...sounds like a cheap horror flick: you're sitting in this weird-looking chair when suddenly it grabs hold of your forearms and starts kneading them like cookie dough. Relax. Seriously. This is no nightmare. It's the Inada D.1, the ultimate in high-tech massage chairs...
Lipsky approaches the cadets like an anthropologist stalking the elusive Yanomamo tribe, and with good reason: he's in a weird, weird place. "Cadets entering West Point step into an irony-free zone," Lipsky writes, "a place where sarcasm has been fought to a standstill." When people say "Huah!" at West Point, they're not doing an Al Pacino impression. "Huah!" is the universal adjective for all things gung-ho and military: a huah cadet would never be caught missing a shave or parking sloppily. A huah cadet would never flunk the regular fitness tests, which include 42 push...
...Whichever side of the river you're on, Goa is where visitors have always sought exotic bliss. It's a Macau or a New Orleans?a weird cultural cocktail of its own devising; and like Macau it was a Portuguese colony, until 1962 when the Indian government annexed...