Word: weirdness
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...third movement is a weird fusion of tragedy and parody. "Frere Jacques" turns up in a chilling minor key, but then the mood is undone by silly outbursts from a clarinet and general schmaltziness. When another "Wayfarer" melody appears, there is a long, painfully beautiful phrase for the oboe that draws the audience close, but then the grotesquerie returns. This plus the final recapitulation of "Frere Jacques" creates the intended unsettling experience...
...standing in front of my first class and I was teaching C.S. 161 and it was just this really weird mind-warp thinking about how I used to view my professors when I was a student," Seltzer says. "Then it hit me, 'My God, these people take me seriously...
...notoriously easy to slip through the cracks at Harvard. With a questionable advising system, large classes, weird entryways that seem built to isolate and schedules so busy that no one can even keep track of their own lives, let alone anyone else's, students have some reason to fear that they could become anonymous. But forget about slipping through the cracks for a moment. What if you were to jump into them...
...murder. He has been alternately asleep, reading, sitting on his bed and chipping golf balls during the murders--and he conceded last week that no one saw him at all between 9:35 and 10:50 p.m. And in his original statement to police Simpson said he was having "weird thoughts" about Nicole, which was why he preferred not to take a lie-detector test. In his deposition Simpson, under persistent questioning, said that those weird thoughts were about the time Nicole had struck his maid, and that he thought the maid should have hit her back. Says the source...
...tone. Yet his 100-page chapter, "The Story of a Middle-Class Family," is among the finest and most frightening of American autobiographies--Sophocles visiting Theodore Dreiser, with gothic touches, told in Chambers' incomparable prose style. "Dysfunctional" does not quite describe the Chambers family of Lynbrook, Long Island--the weird, derisive, mostly vanishing father, who was bisexual; the mad grandmother wandering the house at night with a knife; the mother who slept with an ax under the bed; the alcoholism; the beloved brother Richard who put his head in an oven...