Word: weirdness
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Anyone who sentimentalizes childhood is, of course, an idiot. Childhood is an ordeal and a journey--dangerous, magical, sometimes humiliating and, since you are at the mercy of adults, fairly weird. Little Andris Grof's childhood was somewhat more...
...they would be sorted out into terrorists and non-terrorists, and then their fate would be decided." Weirdest detail: The Taliban emissary traveled with 600 heavily armed fighters in a 39-vehicle convoy, making many Mazar residents think the hated movement was back in town. The deal was pretty weird, too - Harding notes the general's castle is way too small to accommodate all the foreign fighters at Kunduz...
...Ultimately "The Name of the Game," becomes infuriating. All that craft and effort seems wasted on such a crudely obvious story. The whole thing feels weird and depressing, like that sweater you really want to love but just can't bring yourself to wear...
...rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end any discussion of animal rights. Turn loose anthrax and al-Qaeda in America, and look for a similar effect. In two months of a weird autumn, Americans have been shocked out of one country and into a strange new territory called the homeland--a cozy expression, vaguely British, that Americans have never used before. Up to Sept. 11, "homeland security" would have seemed a redundancy. Why shouldn't the homeland be secure...
...Actually, I’m pretty sure it was taken from a porno magazine, but you can only see the person’s face. When I was deciding what to pick, I just thought, “this is weird, you can have...