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...Blank months pass, entirely Gore-free. Then Gore is sighted in far-off lands, with beard. How weird. Never mind: It is time in the desert of obscurity, sackcloth, mere tourist raiment, monkish hirsutism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al Gore, and Other Famous Bearded Men | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

...past, Westermann may have seemed too quirky, colloquial and weird to be, as people used to say, "major." He no longer does. But it's the dark side of Westermann that makes him live, 20 years after his death. Carpenters build houses. Westermann's small houses were habitations for the soul--and traps for it as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aesthete As Popeye | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Perry Farrell knows the value of a weird rock-'n'-roll name. In the late '80s he fronted Jane's Addiction, the artsy Los Angeles punk-metal outfit. He christened his next group, Porno for Pyros, while flipping through a fireworks catalog. And when he started an eclectic summer music festival complete with freaky sideshow acts, he dubbed it Lollapalooza after hearing the absurd word in a Three Stooges short. Even his stage name is a word twist. Born Perry Bernstein, he renamed himself "peripheral": Perry Farrell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anything But Peripheral | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...searched Google for "virus desired," but all I learned was that there are some really weird fetish newsgroups out there. About three hours into my Web-based research, I got distracted by an e-mail from a friend that seemed chock full of virus. The e-mail read, "Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice." I knew it was a virus because my friend's first language is English. Unfortunately, when I tried to open the attachment, my e-mail program detected the virus and wouldn't let me download...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worm Turns...Out To Be A Bust | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

Today the subject is Guy on Metro reading book about diamonds. Hypothesis one: he is getting engaged. Hypothesis two: he is a geology student. Hypothesis three: he thinks I am weird. He gets up and moves...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WASHINGTON: Where To Watch | 8/10/2001 | See Source »

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