Word: weirdness
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...said, ‘I’m sorry’,” Lincoln says. “We let it go. It was weird...
...Instead of inspiring confidence, his behavior caused a bank run. Startled depositors yanked their accounts, and Philippine staffers?not inclined to swallow the weird, cultish rituals Ogami's officers tried to impose?quit in droves. Unitrust was forced to close its doors this January. With the bank in receivership, thousands of remaining depositors are unable to access their funds. "I'm about to lose hope," says one, whose account held all his earnings from years of labor abroad. Rafael Buenaventura, governor of the Philippines central bank, concedes, "This is a clear case of our weak regulatory environment...
...focus on, and help (if only temporarily) discharge our anxieties. You can't finally blame the people responsible for "The Sum of all Fears" for flunking this test. While they were making the movie last year, they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird guys taking flight training. They were probably, justifiably, pleased with their plausible, entertaining variations on standard Tom Clancy themes. Good, for example, to substitute peach fuzzy Ben Affleck for the more grizzled Harrison Ford as the novelist's surrogate, Jack Ryan. He's such a kid; why would the President...
...we’re going to go off into a weird region, we’re going to need a legitimate and critical eye on us at all times, which hopefully Woodruff will also be interested in supporting,” he says. “The community needs to be way more open to letting these people...
...with the basic elements of Chinese Chick Lit, you already know these characters and have seen these plot twists before. On the rare occasion where Min tries to be innovative?such as a sex scene where the characters make love while reciting Maoist quotations?it just comes off seeming weird. If you like clichEd Chinese heroines and a hackneyed love story, all set against the now-too-familiar backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, this is a book for you. For me, I think I'll be reading Helen Fielding while getting my hair dyed at Le Salon...