Word: weirdness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coors double-teams, with both a diversity task force and a diversity management group. Among the unlikely recipients of its corporate largesse are a black-heritage festival, the Mi Casa resource center for women and even a romance novel the company commissioned in 1993 in a good-hearted but weird effort to promote literacy. (Perfect, by Judith McNaught, tells the story of a foster child who "overcomes illiteracy to find true love," as the promotional material says.) The firm contends that it was the first U.S. brewer to have rabbis certify its suds as kosher. "Coors Cares," bleats a company...
Film directors don't always deliver when they make music videos. Gus Van Sant's goofily dark vision of Hanson's Weird was interesting, and Martin Scorsese's story line for Michael Jackson's Bad was pretty good, but Brian De Palma's Dancing in the Dark was kind of silly, and Abel Ferrara's upcoming effort for the Phoids looks like an overly earnest drug documentary. Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) has beaten them all with this black-and-white, slow-motion interpretation of Apple's dreamy Beatles cover from the Pleasantville sound track. While a makeup-free Apple...
...merits of that progression are, of course, questionable. Depeche Mode walks a thin line between being innovative and inane. Sometimes, the synthesized noises sound untempered. Embedded in the songs are sounds of cars screeching, giant coins spinning, undersea environments, etc. The Band can do some very weird things--a listener is led to wonder whether the weirdness is unintentional, or whether Depeche Mode may have a fetish for appearing goofy. Maybe it's a big joke on the listeners. The terrible screeching that opens "I Feel You," the stereophonic mayhem in "Behind the Wheel," and the sounds of the manic...
...this weird fire door exchange thinggoing on where we were passing notes back andforth--it was very grade school," Steinbergersays...
...delved deeper and deeper into blues until the crowd was in a virtual frenzy over the metallic guitar solos so vigorous they seemed super-human. The crowd bravely vibrating in their chairs, yearned to stand. Many even made due by dancing in their seats. Williams joked: "Gee, I feel weird singing this blues stuff in a theater, y'all should be standing up and drunk or something...