Word: weirdness
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What does that exceptionally warm summer represent? Was it just a weird anomaly that briefly interrupted longer-term cooling? Or was the cooling trend itself a temporary glitch, as rising lake levels prior to the mid-1980s suggest? "At the moment," concedes Ohio State University geochemist Berry Lyons, "we don't even know if we're looking at changes that are just regional or if they are related to changes on a global scale...
...though, the DSM can't achieve certainty because psychiatry can't. Unless brain researchers discover exactly how neurological mechanisms become abnormal, the DSM will always include more hypotheses than answers. Which means all those guys fantasizing about tennis outfits are probably just weird, not certifiable...
Confessions has a pretty high exasperation quotient--partly built in (a practical joke is also an endurance test) and partly from its being at the tired end of a line of movies about weird or failed show-biz types (Ed Wood, Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman, Bob Crane). But Clooney turns out to have a flair, puckish and audacious, for his new job. Learning from working with Steven Soderbergh and the Coen brothers and from watching the '70s thrillers of Alan J. Pakula (Klute, The Parallax View), Clooney figured out how to turn images and performances into menace and sizzle...
Some people may think of Twain as a weird robot, but after watching her on a television interview, I felt that, along with being self-disciplined, she is refreshingly grounded and even happy. I applaud her for keeping her personal life private and separate from her career. KIM REMPEL Grimsby...
...stage protests in at least 15 states--but don't expect the spectacle of Vietnam War--era rallies. "You can't burn a flag here," says Anne Marie Weiss-Armush, a longtime Dallas peace activist. "Here people are very image conscious, and the image of peace protesters is very weird...