Word: weirdness
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...think it's weird when I come in [to Annenberg] and see people videocameraing me [from the balcony]," said Ursula G. DeYoung...
...Summer Olympics look positively banal. Nowhere else can you find such intense drama, so much crying and hysteria and so many tiny, oppressed waifs. But who could have possibly envisioned the tragicomic-mystery that unfolded this week in Sydney! Let's relive the high, low and just plain weird moments...
...basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used or seen one, but because they move damn fast and, well, it's a kick to say "luge...
...Which certainly wasn't a problem for this New-Old Democrat. A few unpleasant things popped up for Gore: a touch of emotional tone-deafness - gunplay isn't "mischief," Al - a bit of the pandering square, and those weird pulsing "mm" sounds he makes when, presumably, he's trying to simultaneously listen to the question and figure out which answer to use. He thinks while he talks, too - when a specific question was asked, Gore would reel off the platform line for a while before risking a direct response, if he risked one at all. He has a nervous sort...
Politically, also, there are weird similarities. Pat evolved during our Crossfire years from a free trader to a protectionist and from a Reaganite internationalist to an America First isolationist. Styling himself the tribune of the workingman has led him down other paths that even he probably finds surprising. If it were anyone else, you'd say his views have become more complex and subtle, even tentative. But Pat manages to retain the certitude of simplicity even as his opinions evolve...