Word: weirdness
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...such incident.) Being in the minority took a while for Kimberly McCullough, 18, a white student on a tennis scholarship, to get used to. She is one of four whites out of 300 students in the women's dorm. "Until I made some friends, it was kind of weird at first," she says. "But then it was no big deal...
...Grammys," says the Miami tyke, who phoned in at noon on a school day ("I'm just missing one day," he assured). Comparisons to Michael Jackson could give Sammie a big head, but he still makes time to sign autographs for classmates. "It's kind of a weird thing. But they're fans, so I take time out for them...
...Deep Springs is remarkably good with homophobia. It's a weird guy atmosphere--it waxes macho and it waxes queeny...
...just too weird watching a movie in the Science Center," he says...
Especially if the subject is talking about dating a serial killer or building a friendlier abattoir. Morris is drawn to the Frankensteinian: inventors, self-styled scientists and folks on weird quests of self-discovery. They can be creepy, like Kent, but their stories are moving too. Take Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who empathizes with animals because she thinks in images, which, she contends, is how they think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born...