Word: weirdness
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There were rumors we would hear about, says Rylan M. Hamilton 02. And we would see lesser manifestations, like goosing or towel-slapping, which was weird, but not some sort of epidemic...
...stuff Zeke talked about probably happened but are mad about the way it was handled, says Durham. He was not fixing anything. He was out to get back at the school. The whole thing turned into a crusade against sexual molestation, which has its place, but it was weird in the context...
...there were tacky parties. We would rifle our mothers' closets trying to find some weird, mismatched outfit to wear. But our moms were never trashy enough to produce anything as outlandish as the so-called haute fashion of this enlightened age. Thanks, Joel, for saying what we old broads think. PEGGY PONDER-PERRON San Antonio, Texas...
Keller impresses without trying too damn hard, like some other chefs. He doesn't try to shock with weird juxtapositions, as in Tabasco ice cream. You never think, "Great sauce," at the French Laundry. You think, "Man, that sauce tastes more like ginger-carrot than eating a pound of ginger and carrots." The epiphanies come from finally figuring out exactly what certain foods are supposed to taste like. He refuses to fool you into thinking what's in front of you is more than just food. "I remember my first experience at a three-star restaurant in France...
...American life through the Lamberts’ various misadventures. If a life is lived in the details, then Franzen’s grasp of the Lamberts’ inner and superficial lives is fabulous. He gives us striking and pitch-perfect accounts of the crises and triumphs and weird lines of internal reasoning exhibited by his characters, who are involved in episodes such as a biotech IPO, a fraudulent investment scheme in a Baltic nation, an affair with both the boss and the boss’s spouse, a rather hopeful yet disastrous cruise in search of fall foliage...